Sort of been discussed
"Some suggestions are if you take a medical timeout or a break before, let's say, my serve, that you forfeit the game. I just start the set one-love up. That's one thing that's sort of been discussed. A couple of other things are, like, you get two five-minute breaks during a match or something -- and that's it. There's various different suggestions that are out there."
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Is the NP "one thing that's sort of been discussed" grammatical?
Shouldn't it be the article "a" before "sort" and "being" before "been" in "sort of been discussed"?
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'sort of' is part of very informal English. It can mean 'more or less' as it does here. one thing that has more or less been discussed ...
- 'sort of' is part of very informal English.
- It can mean 'more or less' as it does here.
- one thing that has more or less been discussed ...
- The idea is that the discussion was nowhere near complete.
- More examples of the use of 'sort of': This is sort of an experiment.
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'sort of' is part of very informal English. It can mean 'more or less' as it does here.
... one thing that has more or less been discussed ...
The idea is that the discussion was nowhere near complete.
More examples of the use of 'sort of':
This is sort of an experiment.
Consumerism has sort of become our national religion.
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