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Anonymous Posted 10 years ago
Grammar

Too many

Is "too many" an adverb in the idiom "one too many"?
  

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Anonymous Is "too many" an adverb in the idiom "one too many"? "many" is already a quantifier, and thus a determiner. many houses, many cars, ...

— CalifJim

  • Anonymous Is "too many" an adverb in the idiom "one too many"?
  • "many" is already a quantifier, and thus a determiner.
  • many houses, many cars, ...
  • "too" is an adverb of degree which modifes "many", and "one" just specifies in greater detail the meaning of "too".
  • "one too many" can be analyzed as a determiner phrase in which 'one' modifies 'too' and 'too' modifies 'many'.
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AnonymousIs "too many" an adverb in the idiom "one too many"?
"many" is already a quantifier, and thus a determiner. many houses, many cars, ...
"too" is an adverb of degree which modifes "many", and "one" just specifies in greater detail the meaning of "too".

"one too many" can be analyzed as a determiner phrase in which 'one' modifies 't
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CalifJim"one too many" can be analyzed as a determiner phrase in which 'one' modifies 'too' and 'too' modifies 'many'.
Thank you for the reply.

If the adverb "too" modifies 'many', then it's an interesting case when the adverb not only modifies verbs, adjectives, adverbs and nouns but also determiners.
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Anonymousit's an interesting case when the adverb not only modifies verbs, adjectives, adverbs and nouns but also determiners.
Yes, but only the quantifier variety of determiners.

too much sugar, too many people, not enough sugar, not many roads, ...
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Nouns?

CJ
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CalifJimNouns?
Yes.

quite a girl; three days ago.
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