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Mfholic Posted 20 years ago
Grammar

Is 'rave' a verb here?

0 Turion 64 mobile line--launched in 2005 01font00to00 02font01font00rave02font00 reviews 0-
  

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0 I think this "rave" is used as an adjective although it is originally a noun. 02br 02br 00paco 0-

  • 0 I think this "rave" is used as an adjective although it is originally a noun.
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0 I think this "rave" is used as an adjective although it is originally a noun. "To rave reviews" might mean "with high praises".02br
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0 The phrase 'rave reviews' following a verb such as 'yahoo mail beta gets mostly rave reviews' , or 'summer camps for geeks earn rave reviews' is easily understood, but I can't understand 'rave reviews' immediately after 'to'. 0-
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0 I took this "to" in the sense of "to the accompaniment of" like "to" in "They danced to the sounds of a flute". But I myself am not so sure. Please wait native speakers' opinions.02br
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0 This is an unusual use of 01i00to02i00. It is used by analogy with sentences like 01i00The actors played to an enthusiastic crowd02i00. The expression after 01i00to02i00 tells 01u00to02u00 whom the acting is directed, so to speak, while telling, more obliquely, how the action was received, i.e., e
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1i00so 'to' means 'accompanied by', as in all the following setences, right?02i02br
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01i00The actors played to an enthusiastic crowd02i00.02br
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00They danced to the sounds of a flute.02br
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0 Yes, as I said above, 01i00accompanied by02i00 or, better yet in some cases, 01i00greeted by02i00. In some cases (like your 01i00flute02i00 example) 01i00accompanied by02i00 is perfect. In other cases (like the 01i00launched02i00 example), 01i00accompanied by02i

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