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Anonymous Posted 5 years ago
Grammar

No good

He will surely come to no good if he is kept in neglect.

Is "no good" a noun phrase in the sentence above?

  

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I suppose you could call it that. But I'd prefer to say that come to no good is a fixed expression..

  • I suppose you could call it that.
  • But I'd prefer to say that come to no good is a fixed expression..
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I suppose you could call it that.

But I'd prefer to say that come to no good is a fixed expression..

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anonymous

He will surely come to no good if he is kept in neglect.

Is "no good" a noun phrase in the sentence above?

As far as I know, it's the only thing it could be after a preposition (to).

So yes.

CJ

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