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Mickey Mouse 8241 Posted 10 years ago
Vocabulary

find these as attrative a home as the rubble of the past. "

"So far we have used things like old car tyres and tope, but we have a plan to carry out a more detailed study to test out a variety of atrificial structures and see whether the sea creatures in the harbour find these as attrative a home as the rubble of the past. "
Source : Oxford grammar book
The sentence "find these ad attracyive a home as the rubble past" is so confusing that I cannot figure out what does it mean?
Could u please explain in more details?
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A detailed study will be carried out to find out if sea creatures like to make homes around materials like tyres and rope as much as the materials (rubble) that had been used in the past. Rubble is what is left when buildings are torn down. It consists of pieces of stone, brick and concrete.

— AlpheccaStars

  • A detailed study will be carried out to find out if sea creatures like to make homes around materials like tyres and rope as much as the materials (rubble) that had been used in the past.
  • Rubble is what is left when buildings are torn down.
  • It consists of pieces of stone, brick and concrete.
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A detailed study will be carried out to find out if sea creatures like to make homes around materials like tyres and rope as much as the materials (rubble) that had been used in the past.

Rubble is what is left when buildings are torn down. It consists of pieces of stone, brick and concrete.
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Thanks.
Is there 'a fixed rule' for the following pattern:
"As + adjective + noun +as "
As I don't want to only memorize .I also want to know in more details to be able to understand such forms whenever I come across.

Thanks.
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AlpheccaStarsA detailed study will be carried out to find out if sea creatures like to make homes around materials like tyres and rope as much as the materials (rubble) that had been used in the past. Rubble is what is left when buildings are torn down. It consists of pieces of stone, brick and concrete.
Can I rewrite the sentence as following?

"So fa
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Mickey Mouse 8241Can I rewrite the sentence as following?
Yes.

The pattern as (adjective) a (noun) ... is not common. It is poetic.

Another example:
Sarah will agree to marry Peter because he is as good a man as she will ever find.
Daryshire place is fine a model for urban social housing as can be seen in the city," one critic said.
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AlpheccaStarsThe pattern as (adjective) a (noun) ... is not common. It is poetic.
I wonder how 'Cambridge Grammar for IELST' book used such structures?
AlpheccaStarsSarah will agree to marry Peter because he is as good a man as she will ever find.
Sarah will agree to marry Peter because he is a man who is as good as she will
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Mickey Mouse 8241Did you mean?
Not quite:

Daryshire place is as fine a model for urban social housing as can be seen in the city," one critic said.
Sorry. My cut-and-paste from BBC News was not very proficient.

Sarah will agree to marry Peter because he is a man who is as good as she will ever find.

Here is another
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AlpheccaStarsSarah will agree to marry Peter because he is a man who is as good as she will ever find.
Didn't you think in above sentence a man is compared with Sarah, not with somebody who she has ever wanted to find?
Sorry it is a bit confusing.
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Mickey Mouse 8241Didn't you think in above sentence a man is compared with Sarah,
No. He is compared with any other possible man that she might consider.
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