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Tkacka15 Posted 8 years ago
Vocabulary

Any closer

He added: “Why is it that after 18 months since the referendum we have not got any closer with these issues? The answer is simple: because no one has got any answer about how to do it.”

(The Guardian.)

Is "any closer with these issues" a noun phrase and direct object in the clause we have not got any closer with these issues?

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I've asked that question out of some confusion, namely, by compering we have not got any closer with these issues and no one has got any answer about how to do it. It seems to me that the clause no one has got any answer about how to do it has a noun phrase and direct object any answer about how to do it. So I wonder whether any closer with these issues can be parsed (in its clause) in the same way as any answer about how to do it is in no one has got any answer about how to do it?

  

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tkacka15 Is "any closer with these issues" a noun phrase and direct object in the clause we have not got any closer with these issues? No, neither. ) tkacka15 after 18 months since the referendum It's not related to your question, but "after ...

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  • tkacka15 Is "any closer with these issues" a noun phrase and direct object in the clause we have not got any closer with these issues?
  • No, neither.
  • ) tkacka15 after 18 months since the referendum It's not related to your question, but "after ...
  • since" isn't right.
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tkacka15Is "any closer with these issues" a noun phrase and direct object in the clause we have not got any closer with these issues?

No, neither. ("answer" is a noun, but "closer" is not.)

tkacka15after 18 months since the referendum

It's not related to your question, but "after ... since" isn't right.

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