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And hello yet again, Hela! In the sentences in your first post there is only one adjective phrase: "very little", in sentence # 3. An adjective phrase is a construction that has an adjective as its "head" (the most important word. In "very little", "little" is the head -it's an adjective-...

Hi Taka, Yes I've found the reference-- it's over in 'adjectives', and has to do with the rather anomalous order of adjectives with intensifiers 'how, too' etc. where the order of indefinite article and attibutive adjective is reversed. So, just as we cannot have ' X how lovely flowers these...

Thank you very much for your answer. Could I ask again? All the examples I have come across of this "the COMPARATIVE of the two" pattern are those using adjectives, not adverbs. a. The older of the two boys is in college. b. Of gold and silver, the former is the more precious. c. About...