What can you feel?

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A:  What can you feel? B: ______________Which is correct as the answer of B ? 1) I feel cold.2) I can feel cold.3) I can feel the cold.4) I can feel scare.

Fandorin · Accepted Answer

Hi. We would like you to try. <img class='emoticon' style='Width:19px;Height:19px;' data-delaysrc='https://uat-englishforward-forums-backend.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/Emoticons/5.gif' src='https://uat-englishforward-forums-backend.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/Emoticons/5.gif' alt='Emotion: wink'/>

Darcy · Answer

we??? What does that mean?

BarbaraPA · Answer

Hi Darcy,

The "we" means the people who try to help people with their English. It's important that you give your best attempt to answer it first. However, since the question was already answered for you over at usingenglish, did you not feel you got a good answer there?

"What" ask for a noun repsonse.

Darcy · Answer

Hi, Grammar Geek

First, thanks for your opinion and explanation.
But I think that only Fandorin knows the meaning of the sentence which Fandorin wrote to me, although others can interpret it..

Second, You answered, ' "What" ask for a noun repsonse'.
So you mean number 2,3 4, they are all correct, don't you?
The number 2, 3, 4 , they all have a noun.
'cold' can be a noun as well as an adjective. for example, 'He died of cold and hunger'. In this sentnece ' cold' is a noun.
The difference between number 2 and 3 is a function word, 'the'.
I wanted to know if both are grammatically correct or not.
You know, we often say, ' I feel cold.' and I think 'cold' is the adjective in the sentence, just as 'scared' and 'nervous' are adjectives in this sentence , 'I feel scared, I feel nervous.
I think that ' I can feel scared' or 'I can feel nervous', these sentences are wrong or sound awkard. What do you think of that?
Anyway, I want to know your ideas.. I still want your ideas and more explanation.

The More the Better

Fandorin · Answer

DarcyBut I think that only Fandorin knows the meaning of the sentence which Fandorin wrote to me, although others can interpret it..

Grammar Geek said it as I meant it. By the way, she gave you the perfect answer. But I can't understand a note of incredulity in your intonation and quite a sharp answer to her.

If you have a cold, you have a mild, very common illness which makes you sneeze a lot and gives you a sore throat or a cough.[Collins]

So, the singular noun must receive an article, so the issue , I guess, is settled.

Feel+adjective means "ability to perceive something".

DarcyI think that ' I can feel scared' or 'I can feel nervous', these sentences are wrong or sound awkard. What do you think of that?

Yes, they do. Because feel itself implies the ability, so giving can is exorbitant.

BarbaraPA · Answer

DarcyA: What can you feel?

B: __

Which is correct as the answer of B ?

1) I feel cold.

2) I can feel cold.

3) I can feel the cold.

4) I can feel scare.

The only one that is correct is 3.

I feel cold - cold is an adjective. I says how you feel, not what.

I can feel cold - it's a bit odd, but cold is still an adjective.

I can feel scare - this is not grammatical.

Darcy · Answer

Fandorin Hi. We would like you to try.. Grammar Geek said it as I meant it..

Fandorin.

I still can't figure out why you said to me, 'We would like you to try'.

I know this is where people ask and answer about English.

I believe that those who ask a question all try to give their best attempt to answer it first and ask a question to get various ideas, because they are still not sure of that or want to get more opinions. I also definitely do. I can't figure out why you thought I didn't try.

I think you should be careful the words that come out of your mouth, if you don't prove it, although you feel like that. Coz it's just your feeling.

You have to know that your words may hurt the heart of someone who tries and asks a question. What would you feel if you heard "We would like you to try" from others in spite of your pains and effort. Try to put yourself in their shoes.

And I still can't figure out why you said 'we' not 'I'. Do you mean that you have a gift of feeling what is in other people's hearts and you already know them?

If not so, I think that you may as well say "I" not "we", though it still hurts the person who asks a question.

Fandorin
But I can't understand a note of incredulity in your intonation and quite a sharp answer to her ..

You totally misunderstood.

Fandorine, It was Fandorine, you that said "We would like you to try".

It is true that no one knows the mind and intention of Fandorin, your words better than Fandorin, you although others can interpret it, isn't it?

I think I should hear your intention, your meaning from you. So I explained it to Grammar Geek. Grammar Geek interpreted your words (=We would like you to try).

I appreciate Grammar Geek for taking pains to interpret your words and to help me.

You'll know it and disappear your misunderstanding if you read mine again.
Fandorin the singular noun must receive an article, so the issue , I guess, is settled. ..
Noncount noun is singular. It doesn't need an article. For example, He died of cold and hunger. 'cold' can be a noun as well as an adjective.

I think that non-native speaker can see "cold" as a noun in the sentence, 'I can feel cold'.

I wanted to know how it sounds to native-speakers or what people that know grammar think of.

I want you to know this.

If you had told just about my English question in your first reply or answered nothing instead of saying "We would like you to try' and passed, I wouldn't have been hurt and I wouldn't be writing this long .

Anyway, thanks for giving your idea to my first question in your second reply

Darcy · Answer

Grammar Geek, thanks for your reply again.

I thought you mean 2,3,4 they are all correct when you said to me, 'What" ask for a noun repsonse'.

Because 'cold', ' cold' with the, 'scare', they are all nouns.

I have to think over what to say if someone asks me why "I can feel scare" is not grammatical...

Fandorin · Answer

DarcyNoncount noun is singular.

Nouns are countable and uncountable. Countable are plural and singular.

BarbaraPA · Answer

1. "We" ask people to give their best answer, or to explain where their confusin comes from. Otherwise, it looks like people have simply posted their homework for us to answer. If you don't even know where to start, then say "I don't know where to start because..."

2. "I can feel scare" - as I said it's not grammatical.

I feel ______ without an article requires an adjective.

I feel the/a ___ requires a noun.

I can feel the/a ____ also requies a noun.

I can feel ____ with an adjective sounds very odd. Of course people can feel happy, sad, cold, good. The use of "can" requires a very special context.

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