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Anonymous Posted 5 years ago
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The serious
Okay, let's turn to the serious now and talk about the truth.
Is the serious a noun meaning "serious things" in the sentence above?
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anonymous Okay, let's turn to the serious now and talk about the truth. Is the serious a noun meaning "serious things" in the sentence above? That's one way of looking at it.
- anonymous Okay, let's turn to the serious now and talk about the truth.
- Is the serious a noun meaning "serious things" in the sentence above?
- That's one way of looking at it.
- Another analysis says it's an adjective which has been promoted to the position where a noun would normally be.
- Since the noun (as you say, "things") is implicit (missing), some people call this a headless construction.
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anonymousOkay, let's turn to the serious now and talk about the truth.
Is the serious a noun meaning "serious things" in the sentence above?
That's one way of looking at it.
Another analysis says it's an adjective which has been promoted to the position where a noun would normally be. Since the noun (as you say, "things") i
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