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Ticce Posted 19 years ago
Grammar

How does it sound?

Is it a typical sentence? Do you often build it up like the following....

I don't like this big a house.
  

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Ticce Is it a typical sentence? Do you often build it up like the following.... I don't like this big a house.

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  • Ticce Is it a typical sentence?
  • Do you often build it up like the following....
  • I don't like this big a house.
  • I think we don't put article after "big".
  • So the sentence will be "I don't like this big house" ------ this is a typical one.
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Ticce
Is it a typical sentence? Do you often build it up like the following....

I don't like this big a house.

I think we don't put article after "big". So the sentence will be "I don't like this big house" ------ this is a typical one.

We usually put articles like (a, an, the) before a noun, but if it(noun) modi
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I also thought the same as you are explaining here untill I found this sentence in a grammar book. It is said there that this sentence is correct. May i ask you if you are a native speaker? because I wanted to hear them having some comments about it. But thanks for answering.
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TicceI also thought the same as you are explaining here untill I found this sentence in a grammar book. It is said there that this sentence is correct. May i ask you if you are a native speaker? because I wanted to hear them having some comments about it. But thanks for answering.
I'm not a native speaker of English.

As far as I know, this sentence i
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Yes, that sentence is correct. I've read essays and some books which used that kind of sentence structure. But if I'm not mistaken, I think that it is used in old english language (just a guess), because I've read some works of Shakespeare, and I saw some sentences of this kind. But I'm not a native speaker of english.

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Yes, it's an acceptable construction.

"adjective a noun".

It generalises what you are talking about.

I don't like this big a house. This means I don't like houses that are this big. My preference is for smaller houses.

I don't like this big house. This means that I don't like this specific house (which just happens to be big)
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So the meaning of 'this' in the given sentence is close to 'so' and 'such'.

I don't like this big a house.
I don't like so big a house.
I don't like such a big house (such big houses).

Interesting. I didn't know 'this' could be used that way.
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Also 'that'. I don't like that big a house.
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It goes without saying. Emotion: smile Thanks anyway! [f]
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