As adjective/adverb
1. It is not as easy, though, to take chances.
2.? You have to make questions as easy, considering their age.
3. Though he merged easily into any group he chose, he traveled just as easily alone.
I have sometimes come across the incomplete version of "subject/object as adjective/adverb as noun" as in the above sentences, you can see the part "as noun" left out, but I seem to have read before a grammar explanation that in the case, it is wrong to include "as" and "as" should be dropped because "as" is used for comparing in the case.
So, what I'm curious to know is whether, at least in informal settings, we can say or write "as adjective/adverb" without adding the part "as noun" in such a context where we cannot guess what "as noun" is implied because a speaker or writer hasn't said about "as noun".
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In this type of "incomplete" construction, I would say that the second "as ~" has to be inferable from the context. This is very easily done in (3). ", though (2) seems unusual in any context, and feels as if it could just be an error.
- In this type of "incomplete" construction, I would say that the second "as ~" has to be inferable from the context.
- This is very easily done in (3).
- ", though (2) seems unusual in any context, and feels as if it could just be an error.
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In this type of "incomplete" construction, I would say that the second "as ~" has to be inferable from the context. This is very easily done in (3). (1) and (2) need some more context to answer the question "easy as what?", though (2) seems unusual in any context, and feels as if it could just be an error.
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