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Anonymous Posted 11 years ago
Grammar
"look an ordinary"
Hi,
I would like to ask native english speakers, whether the following sentence is gramatically correct: "He looks just an ordinary teenager".
If it is correct, could somebody please let me know what is the gramatical reasoning behind it? I undersand that one can say "He looks just like an ordinary teenager" (because it's a phrasal verb), or "He looks just ordinary." (like+adjective), but how about the sentence in question?
Thank you in advance for helping me solve this
I would like to ask native english speakers, whether the following sentence is gramatically correct: "He looks just an ordinary teenager".
If it is correct, could somebody please let me know what is the gramatical reasoning behind it? I undersand that one can say "He looks just like an ordinary teenager" (because it's a phrasal verb), or "He looks just ordinary." (like+adjective), but how about the sentence in question?
Thank you in advance for helping me solve this
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Anonymous how about the sentence in question? It is only borderline grammatical to my American ear. It has a faintly British ring to it, at least for me, but I don't know if it would be considered more formal or less formal in British English to omit "like".
- Anonymous how about the sentence in question?
- It is only borderline grammatical to my American ear.
- It has a faintly British ring to it, at least for me, but I don't know if it would be considered more formal or less formal in British English to omit "like".
- It seems to me I've heard such things as "You look a fool doing that" on British TV.
- The period of World War I has an interesting inflection point in the following N-grams.
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Anonymoushow about the sentence in question?It is only borderline grammatical to my American ear. It has a faintly British ring to it, at least for me, but I don't know if it would be considered more formal or less formal in British English to omit "like". It seems to me I've heard such things as "You look a fool doing that" on British TV.
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