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Anonymous Posted 4 years ago
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Few and far between

Is few a determiner or is it a pronoun in the idiom few and far between?

I think it's a pronoun.

  

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anonymous Is few a determiner or is it a pronoun in the idiom few and far between? I call it an adjective, a predicate adjective. It is not a pronoun.

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  • anonymous Is few a determiner or is it a pronoun in the idiom few and far between?
  • I call it an adjective, a predicate adjective.
  • It is not a pronoun.
  • The expression is used thus: Opportunities for advancement are few and far between.
  • In other words, few opportunities exist, and there is a long time between them.
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anonymousIs few a determiner or is it a pronoun in the idiom few and far between?

I call it an adjective, a predicate adjective. It is not a pronoun. The expression is used thus: Opportunities for advancement are few and far between. In other words, few opportunities exist, and there is a long time between them.

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