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Anonymous Posted 12 years ago
Grammar

Can Beautiful and Perfect Be Used As Nouns?

Hello,

Do you concur that the adjectives "beautiful" and "perfect" are used as nouns in the sentences "Would you let me see beneath your beautiful?" and "Would you let me see beneath your perfect?" Or am I getting this wrong? Thank you in advance, teachers. Emotion: smile
  

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Anonymous"Would you let me see beneath your beautiful?" and "Would you let me see beneath your perfect?"
These sentences are not natural English.
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I see. Can you please share to me your understanding of what these sentences mean? I'm just trying to improve my English. Thank you.
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They mean nothing to me. In what context did you see/hear them?
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I heard them from a song, actually, by Labrinth. I know "beautiful" is plainly an adjective, but I'm wondering whether in the phrase "beneath your beautiful," it has become a noun because it's modified by "your."
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I suggest that you may have been confused by homophones:

Would you let me see [that] beneath you're beautiful?
Would you let me see [that] beneath you're perfect?
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Oops, you may be correct, Mister Micawber. My bad Emotion: smile At any rate, I'm afraid I still don't understand these sentences completely. Woul
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