In Nouns^x, Articles^x, Constructions^x

Hello People One of my English grammar books written in Japanese says about as including concessive adverbial clauses as follows Construction ad adv v as they are all literal expressions and rarely used in speech 1 Old as he is his step is as steady as ever 2 Big as the boy was he couldn t lift...

As far as I know superlative can only work with the definite article But when this Error Correction question comes up I kinda lose my judgement A most useful tool for analyzing the elemental composition of fossils is the electron probe a modify electron microscope You see if I choose choice A...

Hi MrP and Casi Here s another article supposedly relating to our discussion which I just skimmed it Sounds the construction adj or a noun of a noun is an expression used to show speaker s emotion Ora Matsushansky By the way OED mentions about the construct so how that too a noun in a part of the...

Hello Paco First I should answer your previous question about the emphatic forms with no reasonable normal form My thought here is that it s perfectly idiomatic to say You are too good a cook to sack which looks like the same construction as this is too tough a question to answer So it ought to...

1 Worse is the comparative of bad while worst is the superlative bad worse the worst His new movie is worse than his last Your cooking is getting worse compared to before Among his movies the newest one is the worst This is the worst of all 2 I m reproducing Taiwandave s post in its entirety The...

Hello MrMicawber Thank you for the reply That contains really useful new information The construction of N too Adj to do is what I have long wondered why people use But now I got it However regarding to the original question about the reason why we cannot put too so Adj before plural or...

Well let me see if I can attack your concerns in a sort of slap dash fashion First let me collect our sentences 1 She is a too clever woman to stay in so boring a job 1a She is too clever a woman to stay in so boring a job 2 She is too clever a woman to stay in such a boring job 3 These are too...

Hi CJ So to make this completely clear for me I have to put the pronoun after the particle I mean is it natural to use a personal pronoun in these constructions The teacher call on them in the back row I got over it The students went over it before the exam I ran across him at the college reunion

Hello MrP History of English Gerunds quoted from OED The most notable development of the verbal nouns in form of ing is its use as a gerund i e a substantive with certain verbal functions particularly those of being qualified by an adverb instead of an adjective and of governing an object like a...

Hi Eager I have run through and fixed the grammar but have not had time to consider your analysis sorry There are several linguistic resources that help people express genericness Below can be observed several forms that can also express something different than genericness In the first pair of...