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mings
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 Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2005 7:06 pm Post subject: How to choose to the best? |
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Please show me how to choose the best among these choices. Please explain so that I can do it on my own.
" The robber didn't know that he was a ...........policeman."
a. plain-cloth
b. plain-clothing
c. plain-clothes
d. plain-clothed
Thanks for your help. |
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Bob S.
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| Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2005 11:18 am Post subject: Re: How to choose to the best? |
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| mings wrote: |
Please show me how to choose the best among these choices. Please explain so that I can do it on my own.
" The robber didn't know that he was a ...........policeman."
a. plain-cloth
b. plain-clothing
c. plain-clothes
d. plain-clothed |
1. Simplify the phrase to what you need to know.
i.e. "He was a _____ policeman."
2. Policeman is a noun, so the the word before it must describe it, ergo, the word before it must be an adjective.
3. Of the choices, which is an adjective? Which are not?
Clothes, cloth, and clothing are all nouns. So by process of elimination, clothed is left.
4. Check your answer. Can you use clothed as an adjective? Try re-writing it:
"The policeman was plain-clothed." (plain-clothed is a predicate adjective here) Good. So the answer is d. |
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mings
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| Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2005 5:57 pm Post subject: |
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Dear Bob S.
I can't say how much I thank you for your kind help.
Your explanation is so clear that I think you must be a good teacher.
Thank you again. |
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Bob S.
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| Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2005 11:00 am Post subject: |
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| Kind of you to say. I hope the method works for you in the future. |
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