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afsjesse
Joined: 23 Sep 2007
Location: Kickin' it in 'Kato town.
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 Posted: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:47 pm Post subject: "What a surprise" Question |
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| In the statemnt "What a surprise", is "Surprise" a noun or an adjective? |
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Ruthdes
Joined: 16 Oct 2008
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Thu Apr 23, 2009 7:05 pm Post subject: |
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| It is a noun (or so I believe - I never had much grammar taught to me in school so most of what I know is pieced together from teaching English for a year). But the sentence is an expression rather than a proper sentence as there is no verb. |
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GreenlightmeansGO
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Location: Daegu
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| Posted: Thu Apr 23, 2009 7:09 pm Post subject: |
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| abstract noun |
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teacherinseoul
Joined: 18 May 2008
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| Posted: Fri Apr 24, 2009 5:47 am Post subject: |
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| Neither. It's an interplicative. |
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