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Subject: Re: much as a determiner or an adverb?
Date: 16 Jun 2005 13:45:14 -0700
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I vote for an adjective. The structure seems fundamentally related to:
"Too lazy a man to respond appropriately"
"Too boring a day to write something interesting"
"Too odd a morning to not reply to something like this flippantly"
"Too geeky a post to reply to in the carefully reasoned manner of a
language researcher"
I'm also not quite clear on exactly what a determiner is, and well,
neither are many professional grammarians. Can we restrict a determiner
to the classic list: definite and indefinite articles, possessive
adjectives, indicative pronouns, partitives, or must we open ourselves
to a more open definition where we simply say a
determiner...determines?
One thing is certainly for sure: too much of nothing can make a man
feel ill at ease.
Pine wrote:
> He was fundamentally too much a man of strong convictions to be
> correctly described as open-minded.
>
> He was too much a man, and too much an unusual type of man.
>
> But he was too much a man of appetites, too painterly, not to
> recognize the value,both sensual and moral, of a gesture.
>
>
> In the above three sentences, does 'much' function as a determiner or
> an adverb?
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