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Nhật Bình Posted 5 years ago
Grammar

However

With that in mind we must apply ourselves to understanding stress and the nature of its causes, however deep-seated.

Can however be followed by an adjective alone?

The sentence with however below is more familiar to me.

However beautiful his paintings are, Ms Laura, his arts teacher still gives him a low score. Perhaps she has it in for him.

  

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t Bình With that in mind we must apply ourselves to understanding stress and the nature of its causes, however deep-seated. Can " however " be followed by an adjective alone? Yes — that's fine.

  • t Bình With that in mind we must apply ourselves to understanding stress and the nature of its causes, however deep-seated.
  • Can " however " be followed by an adjective alone?
  • Yes — that's fine.
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Nh?t BìnhWith that in mind we must apply ourselves to understanding stress and the nature of its causes, however deep-seated.
Can "however" be followed by an adjective alone?

Yes — that's fine.

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Nh?t Bình... stress and the nature of its causes, however deep-seated.

In other words, "however deep-seated they may be".

CJ

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Nh?t BìnhWith that in mind we must apply ourselves to understanding stress and the nature of its causes, however deep-seated.Can however be followed by an adjective alone?

Yes, but "however" seems lazy there. It seems to apply to "understanding", but it implies that if they weren't deep-seated, we wouldn't have to try to understand them. What is meant is "

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