Hello,
I have a question about omitting "of" and putting more nouns one after another. I would like to write a heading like this:
Mechanisms of drug resistance and virulence genes spread among bacteria
(Meaning of the sentence - mechanisms by which drug resistance genes and virulence genes are spread...).
There is no verb (it's a heading), word "spread" is a noun. My question is if it is possible to write it in this way or if there should be more "of" prepositions like below:
Mechanisms of the spread of drug resistance and virulence genes among bacteria
To make it as simple as possible, my two options can be written in this way:
1) Mechanisms of genes spread
2) Mechanisms of the spread of genes
Which one of these two options is correct and more natural?
Thank you a lot for your explanation.
Marian
More nouns one after another
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Re: More nouns one after another
#2 is more natural-sounding.