Coordination
ex) He is kind and a teacher (?)
'kind' is an adjective and a teacher is a noun phrase.
'and' is a coordinator and it connects 'kind' with 'a teacher'.
But, 'kind' and 'a teacher' are different part of speech.
I wonder whether the sentence above is correct or not.
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Hoony I wonder whether the sentence above is correct or not. I haven't come across anything like that. We say "He is a kind teacher" which of course does not convey the same meaning.
- Hoony I wonder whether the sentence above is correct or not.
- I haven't come across anything like that.
- We say "He is a kind teacher" which of course does not convey the same meaning.
- If I am supposed to retain the same meaning contained in your sentence, I would write this: He is a teacher and a kind person.
- Even this sounds a little odd to my ears.
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HoonyI wonder whether the sentence above is correct or not.
I haven't come across anything like that.
We say "He is a kind teacher" which of course does not convey the same meaning.
If I am supposed to retain the same meaning contained in your sentence, I would write this:
He is a teacher and a kind person.
Even this sounds
0As you noticed, parallelism is needed to share the same verb.
He is [a kind person] and [a good teacher.]
Otherwise, you can join two sentences:
[He is a teacher] and [he is kind].
0Yes, it's grammatically OK.
In most cases of coordination the coordinates belong to the same syntactic category, but a difference of category is generally tolerated where there is a likeness of function. For example the coordination of AdjPs, NPs, and PPs in predicative complement function:
[1] It was [extremely expensive and in bad taste]. [AdjP + PP]
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