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Armsys Posted 18 years ago
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Complicated Expression--You'll not learn all there...

0Would you be very kind eough to explain the following expression?02br
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00"You will not learn 01b01font00all there02font02b00 is to know about OOP in 21 days--that's simply not possible."02br
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01i00Originally extracted from page 1 of Sams Teach Yourself Object Oriented Programming in 21 Days02i02br
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00Especiallly I'm completely perplexed and tormented by "you will not learn all there is to know..." What's the grammatical function and syntactical meaning of "all there"?02br
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00Please help. Thanks.02br
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00Armstrong0-
  

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" 12br 12blockquote 10You [01i 00will not learn02i 00] all [01i 00there is to know02i 00] 0-

— Feebs11

  • " 12br 12blockquote 10You [01i 00will not learn02i 00] all [01i 00there is to know02i 00] 0-
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01cite10Armsys12cite10"you will not learn all there is to know..." 12br
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10You [01i00will not learn02i00] all [01i00there is to know02i00] 0-
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0I appreciate your interesting disection. Do yo imply that "there is know" is used to describe or characterize "all?"02br
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00Thanks.02br
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00Armstrong0-
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0 "all" qualifies "there is to know" as can be shown in the following:02br
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00"01i00what02i00 there is to know"02br
00"01i00how much02i00 there is to know"02br
00"01i00all02i00 there is to know" 0-
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0Hi guys,02br
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01font00"You will not learn 01b00all there02b00 is to know about OOP in 21 days--that's simply not possible."02font02br
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00I'd like to offer a different analysis.02br
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00I see01b00 'all'02b00 as a noun, and '(01b00tha
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0 Hi Clive,02br
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01b01font00I see 'all' as a noun, and '(that) there is to know' as an adjectival clause describing 'all'.02font02b02br
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01font00Yours makes more sense, especially where you point out the missing (implied) "that." Thanks a lot.02font02br
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