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Siavash Moghaddasian Posted 8 years ago
Grammar
As good a care
Hi everyone,
I don't understand this structure. (As good a care)
What does it mean?
Yeah, yeah, I’ve actually heard that, uh, the, uh, the people who work there also, the doctors and the nurses, they just don’t provide as good a care.
Source: Effortless English podcast.
I don't understand this structure. (As good a care)
What does it mean?
Yeah, yeah, I’ve actually heard that, uh, the, uh, the people who work there also, the doctors and the nurses, they just don’t provide as good a care.
Source: Effortless English podcast.
Top answer
More standard English is they just don’t provide as good a care. The idea is that they just don’t provide as good a care as the care that is probably mentioned somewhere else in your text.
- More standard English is they just don’t provide as good a care.
- The idea is that they just don’t provide as good a care as the care that is probably mentioned somewhere else in your text.
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More standard English is they just don’t provide as good a care.
The idea is that
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The speaker made a mistake. He didn't mean "a care". I'll bet he actually said "of care", a common blunder. Doctors and nurses are said to provide care.
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Siavash Moghaddasianthey just don’t provide as good a care.
"as X a Y (as Z)" is a set pattern of words, meaning "a Y that is as X (as Z)". In this case:
"as good a care (as Z)" = "a care that is as good (as Z)", where Z, the thing that it is being compared to, m
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