The correct answer to the previous #quiz was:
~ Back in the 1960s it was believed that rock music encouraged atheism, nihilism, and purposelessness.
"Invented" is logically strange since atheism and nihilism had existed long before the 1960s; "promoted of" is just an incorrectly formed combination of the verb and preposition; and so is "advocated for", but…
It would've been totally correct to use "advocated" if there had been NO "for". Here's something interesting about "advocate":
1. It can be both a verb and noun, spells the same.
2. When it's a verb, it's pronounced "AD-vuh-keyt" and does NOT require any preposition. You advocate something. He advocates the use of firearms.
3. But when it's a noun, it's pronounced like "AD-vuh-kit", and in this case a preposition is required, but notice the difference in how prepositions a're used:
a) I want to be an advocate for the poor ("for" suggests a group of people, or some person, generally)
b) I want to be an advocate of peaceful coexistence ("of" suggests a thing or something abstract, as a rule).
The same principle about pronunciation applies to another word - "degenerate".
1. When it's a verb, it's "dih-JEN-uh-reyt". Someone's performance has degenerated. Her health will degenerate if no professional treatment is applied. But...
2. When it's a noun, when oftentimes we need to refer to someone as "a degenerate", it's "dih-JEN-er-rit". The king appeared to be a degenerate.
3. The noun's pronunciation is used when "degenerate" is used as an adjective, too. His queen was no better, she was a degenerate ruler.
However, it's not mathematical about words that end with -ate. They're numerous - http://bit.ly/2PwUzrm and though sometimes you can apply the concept described above, sometimes it either doesn't fit or simply doesn't work.
~ Back in the 1960s it was believed that rock music encouraged atheism, nihilism, and purposelessness.
"Invented" is logically strange since atheism and nihilism had existed long before the 1960s; "promoted of" is just an incorrectly formed combination of the verb and preposition; and so is "advocated for", but…
It would've been totally correct to use "advocated" if there had been NO "for". Here's something interesting about "advocate":
1. It can be both a verb and noun, spells the same.
2. When it's a verb, it's pronounced "AD-vuh-keyt" and does NOT require any preposition. You advocate something. He advocates the use of firearms.
3. But when it's a noun, it's pronounced like "AD-vuh-kit", and in this case a preposition is required, but notice the difference in how prepositions a're used:
a) I want to be an advocate for the poor ("for" suggests a group of people, or some person, generally)
b) I want to be an advocate of peaceful coexistence ("of" suggests a thing or something abstract, as a rule).
The same principle about pronunciation applies to another word - "degenerate".
1. When it's a verb, it's "dih-JEN-uh-reyt". Someone's performance has degenerated. Her health will degenerate if no professional treatment is applied. But...
2. When it's a noun, when oftentimes we need to refer to someone as "a degenerate", it's "dih-JEN-er-rit". The king appeared to be a degenerate.
3. The noun's pronunciation is used when "degenerate" is used as an adjective, too. His queen was no better, she was a degenerate ruler.
However, it's not mathematical about words that end with -ate. They're numerous - http://bit.ly/2PwUzrm and though sometimes you can apply the concept described above, sometimes it either doesn't fit or simply doesn't work.