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Hans51 Posted 14 years ago
Grammar

"Heavy is happy"

" Heavy is happy", "Good is better than perfect". Is it okay to place adjectives to the position of subjects or they should be considered as nouns?

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Hi, These are correct, idiomatic expressions. You could think of them as a shortened form of eg Being heavy is being happy eg To be heavy is to be happy. Clive

— Clive

  • Hi, These are correct, idiomatic expressions.
  • You could think of them as a shortened form of eg Being heavy is being happy eg To be heavy is to be happy.
  • Clive
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Hi,

These are correct, idiomatic expressions.

You could think of them as a shortened form of
eg Being heavy is being happy
eg To be heavy is to be happy.

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