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Jigneshbharati Posted 6 years ago
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Noble-sounding
I am reading a book "The Hodgeheg" by Dick King-Smith.
Pa had agreed, reluctantly, to these names but had insisted upon his own choice for the fourth, a little boar. Boys, he said, needed noble-sounding names, and the fourth youngster was there for called Victor Maximilian St George (Max for short).
Is "noble-sounding", a compound adjective made up of an adjective plus present participle?
How do we know that we can use past participle here:noble-sounded?
Why do we need the past perfect (had insisted upon...) instead of just simple past in the above?
Pa had agreed, reluctantly, to these names but had insisted upon his own choice for the fourth, a little boar. Boys, he said, needed noble-sounding names, and the fourth youngster was there for called Victor Maximilian St George (Max for short).
Is "noble-sounding", a compound adjective made up of an adjective plus present participle?
How do we know that we can use past participle here:noble-sounded?
Why do we need the past perfect (had insisted upon...) instead of just simple past in the above?
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Jigneshbharati Is "noble-sounding", a compound adjective made up of an adjective plus present participle? Yes. Jigneshbharati How do we know that we can use past participle here:noble-sounded?
- Jigneshbharati Is "noble-sounding", a compound adjective made up of an adjective plus present participle?
- Yes.
- Jigneshbharati How do we know that we can use past participle here:noble-sounded?
- We can't.
- Did you mean to write can't use?
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JigneshbharatiIs "noble-sounding", a compound adjective made up of an adjective plus present participle?
Yes.
JigneshbharatiHow do we know that we can use past participle here:noble-sounded?
We can't. Did you mean to write can't use?
JigneshbharatiWhy do we need the past perfect (
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