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Hi,
Could you please explain me the following sentence.
How can he or she use too and a orderly in here. Just dont get it.
Intention is too intimate a matter for it to be accessible from outside except by means of vague approximations.
Thanks
Top answer
e. in this case "a matter that is too intimate".
- e.
- in this case "a matter that is too intimate".
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"too X a Y" is a set pattern of words that means "a Y that is too X", i.e. in this case "a matter that is too intimate".
0The indefinite article is placed after the adjective when too is used:
It's a question. — It's a difficult question. — It's too difficult a question.
The same thing happens with so:
It's a difficult question. — It's so difficult a question. (But: It's such a difficult question.)
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