Wearing off of the faith in

[chitraaa]

"Dystopia signals the wearing off of the faith in technological and political progress that the seventeenth-century “Age or Reason” and the eighteenth-century Enlightenment had given birth to."
Wanted to know if the highlighted text is grammatically correct? Is it a standard expression? Thanks.

 

[emsr2d2]

The seven words together don't make up a fixed expression. Does it help to know that "wearing off" here is a noun?

People's faith in ... was wearing off ... (In that reorder of the sentence, "wear off" is a phrasal verb.)

 

[chitraaa]

The seven words together don't make up a fixed expression. Does it help to know that "wearing off" here is a noun?

People's faith in ... was wearing off ... (In that reorder of the sentence, "wear off" is a phrasal verb.)

Thank you, but is it grammatically acceptable to say, "Dystopia signals the wearing off of the faith in technological and political progress."

 

[Rover_KE]

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Wanted I want to know if the highlighted text is grammatically correct. (It's not a question.)

 

[emsr2d2]

Thank you, but is it grammatically acceptable to say no comma here "Dystopia signals the wearing off of the faith in technological and political progress"?

Yes. That is a grammatically correct sentence.