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Anonymous Posted 9 years ago
Vocabulary
Comparative clause
As blatant a penalty as you are ever likely to see.
Is the sentence above a comparative clause?
Is the sentence above a comparative clause?
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Anonymous Is the sentence above a comparative clause? Yes. At least I don't know what else I would call it.
- Anonymous Is the sentence above a comparative clause?
- Yes.
- At least I don't know what else I would call it.
- CJ
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AnonymousIs the sentence above a comparative clause?Yes. At least I don't know what else I would call it.
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AnonymousIs the sentence above a comparative clause?OK. Let's rethink this. First of all, it's not a sentence. Taken as a whole it's an NP (noun phrase), and the head is 'penalty'. Here it's used as a subject complement, and now we have a full sentence:
That was as blatant a penalty as you are ever likely to see.
The idea is that
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CalifJim Does that help?Yes, it's helped. I understand that "As blatant" is a pre-modifier of "a penalty" and "as you are ever likely to see" its post-modifier, strangely enough a sort of the relative clause (it modifies a noun) here, thus making it a noun phrase.
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AnonymousYes, it's helped.Great! Do you think you could make up more sentences like that?
That was as strong a ... as ...
That was as beautiful a ... as ...
... and so on.
CJ
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CalifJimGreat! Do you think you could make up more sentences like that?That was as strong a ... as ...That was as beautiful a ... as ...That was as strong a wind as you could possibly imagine.
That was as beautiful a picture as you could ever see.
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AnonymousThat was as strong a wind as you could possibly imagine. That was as beautiful a picture as you could ever see.Yup! You got it!
At least you didn't go for That was as strong a smell as anyone could endure.
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