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Originally posted by Kuciwalker
Touche.
What do you call it when it follows "to be"?
Touche.
What do you call it when it follows "to be"?
Linguists would call the whole phrase "to be an option" a predicate.
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According to my dictionary, the English term is "complement".
Linguists would call the whole phrase "to be an option" a predicate.Why can't you be a non-conformist just like everybody else?
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No, I meant, what do you call a noun that follows a linking verb (such as "to be").Originally posted by Sikander
Infinitive?Comment
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And TLC answered.Comment
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There may be a link between this thread and the one about the toxic spill.“It is no use trying to 'see through' first principles. If you see through everything, then everything is transparent. But a wholly transparent world is an invisible world. To 'see through' all things is the same as not to see.”
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Re: Re: Concubines... are an option (part deux)
Not quite sure why it is correct to say "concubines are an option," but it is correct.Originally posted by Winston
Just for the sake of making DanS happy, since I know how much he loves these off topic remarks, shouldn't it be "Concubines... is an option"?
To wit, you can say "an option is so and so", or "one option would be so and so" not "an option are..".
Just sayin'.I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891Comment
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I think it is easy to mark it up to the fact that economic progress is rather uneven.Originally posted by DaShi
In China, it's very strange as a rapid prevalence of prostitution is usually a sign of a struggling or declining economy, something that is certainly not happening in China. What I worry about is that traditional attitudes toward women are reemerging.I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891Comment
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DanS, you know from first hand experience just how brilliant my English is, and yet you still have the audacity to argue its proper use?!Originally posted by DanS
Not quite sure why it is correct to say "concubines are an option," but it is correct.
It don't compute.Comment
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The last time I diagrammed a sentence was in high school. Have a high schooler around here do it.
I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891Comment
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Re: Re: Re: Concubines... are an option (part deux)
It's correct because you copycatted that title from me and I wrote it correctly.Originally posted by DanS
Not quite sure why it is correct to say "concubines are an option," but it is correct.DISCLAIMER: the author of the above written texts does not warrant or assume any legal liability or responsibility for any offence and insult; disrespect, arrogance and related forms of demeaning behaviour; discrimination based on race, gender, age, income class, body mass, living area, political voting-record, football fan-ship and musical preference; insensitivity towards material, emotional or spiritual distress; and attempted emotional or financial black-mailing, skirt-chasing or death-threats perceived by the reader of the said written texts.Comment
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So as not to threadjack any further, I think it'd be more fun to have a concubine do it.
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Kuci already did.Originally posted by DanS
The last time I diagrammed a sentence was in high school. Have a high schooler around here do it.
Why can't you be a non-conformist just like everybody else?
It's no good (from an evolutionary point of view) to have the physique of Tarzan if you have the sex drive of a philosopher. -- Michael Ruse
The Nedaverse I can accept, but not the Berzaverse. There can only be so many alternate realities. -- ElokComment
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Concubines... are an option (part deux)
That's all we need to know.Originally posted by Colon
It's correct because you copycatted that title from me and I wrote it correctly.
I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891Comment
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Seriously speaking, I don't think I would like to live in a society where concubines confer status. Concubines seem rather expensive for a man of limited means like myself.
I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891Comment
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And annoyingly time-consuming...Originally posted by DanS
Seriously speaking, I don't think I would like to live in a society where concubines confer status. Concubines seem rather expensive for a man of limited means like myself.
Stop Quoting BenComment
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Hard Gay and Japan laugh at all you other Asian nations trying to be gay...
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