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Jacklong Posted 21 years ago
Grammar

Time is both the most familiar and the most elusive of concepts.

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00Time is both the most familiar and the most elusive of concepts= Time is one of the most familiar and the most elusive concepts? 02br
00Or can I say : Time is both the most familiar and the most elusive concepts. ? 02br
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' -- different; you have conceptually added at least one more, though unnamed, 'most familiar and elusive' concept. ' -- the idea is the same but the grammar is now faulty: 'concepts' must be singularized in this structure. 0-

— Mister Micawber

  • ' -- different; you have conceptually added at least one more, though unnamed, 'most familiar and elusive' concept.
  • ' -- the idea is the same but the grammar is now faulty: 'concepts' must be singularized in this structure.
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0'Time is both the most familiar and the most elusive of concepts.' -- the original 02br
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00'Time is one of the most familiar and the most elusive concepts.' -- different; you have conceptually added at least one more, though unnamed, 'most familiar and elusive' concept. 02br
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00'Time is both the most familiar and the most elusive concepts.' -- the
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0 First of all, thank you so much, Mister Micawber. 02br
00I think the original one 'Time is both the most familiar and the most elusive of concepts.' also conceptually has at least one more , though unnamed, 'most familiar and elusive concepts', because 'concepts' in this one is plural. Is that right? if it is , then what is the difference between the original and the second one? 0
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0 I'm sure Mister Micawber is a by far better answerer than me, but could you allow me to put my thought on your question? 02br
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00We have many physical concepts; time, length, mass, temperature, gravity, speed, force, power, heat, light intensity, magnetism, so on. Some of those concepts are familiar to us, and some may be elusive to us. But time is the most familiar amo
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0 I'd take it as 'time is both the most familiar and the most elusive member of the set {concepts}.' 02br
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00Is the statement true, by the way? 02br
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0 I think only people like Einstein or Bergson can give you a correct answer. 02br
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0 Thank you all for helping me. 0-
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