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Hanuman_2000 Posted 9 years ago
Grammar

Gradable noun

Hello.
Could anyone explain what is a gradable noun?
  

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Could anyone explain what is a gradable noun? Here's a fairly comprehensive discussion about gradable nouns. pdf If that is too difficult for you, here's a simpler discussion.

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hanuman_2000Hello.Could anyone explain what is a gradable noun?
Here's a fairly comprehensive discussion about gradable nouns.

http://www.semanticsarchive.net/Archive/Tc4OWZhM/deg_nouns.pdf

If that is too difficult for you, here's a sim
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Hello,

she is a naughty girl.
she is a nice girl.
she is a beautiful girl.

Does it mean 'girl' a gradable noun?

Thanks.
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hanuman_2000Does it mean 'girl' is a gradable noun?
I believe so, but frankly, I don't know. I don't recommend your wasting a lot of time on this topic. There can't be more than 200 linguistics experts in the whole world who know or care anything about it.

More importantly, you should note the red correction in yo
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Sir,

Thanks for correcting me.

I will keep this in my mind.

1. I don't recommend your wasting a lot of time on this topic.

The above sentence could be paraphrased -

A. I don't recommend you wasting a lot of time on this topic.

B. I recommend you not wasting a lot of time on this topic

Thanks.
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