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64801965 Posted 15 years ago
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As+adj.+a(n)+noun.+as
Americans tend to think from small to large. Let's take as simple an example as the addressing of envelopes.
Why not be: ...Let's take an as simple example as...?
Why not be: ...Let's take an as simple example as...?
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as + adj + article + noun +as
Simply because that is the syntactical structure accepted in English; I can think of no other reason except that the words cannot go together in that order any more than I can write 'Let's a simple example take.'
Simply because that is the syntactical structure accepted in English; I can think of no other reason except that the words cannot go together in that order any more than I can write 'Let's a simple example take.'
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