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sejpdw
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 Posted: Thu Nov 09, 2006 5:25 pm Post subject: be far from |
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1. The Japanese average person may be wealthy when he goes abroad, but is far from wealthy at home.
2. Our cities and towns are far from silent at nigth.
I don't understand the reason "is far from wealthy" and " is far from silent" are used instead of "is far from being wealthy" and "is far from being silent". "From" is a preposition, so it needs an object, and adjectives are not used as objects.
Please explain the reason to me and give me some more examples like this in which adjectives come after prepositions without "being". |
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Mary W. Ng
Joined: 26 Jun 2006
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| Posted: Fri Nov 10, 2006 9:47 am Post subject: Re: be far from |
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1. The Japanese average person may be wealthy when he goes abroad, but is far from wealthy at home.
2. Our cities and towns are far from silent at nigth.
I don't understand the reason "is far from wealthy" and " is far from silent" are used instead of "is far from being wealthy" and "is far from being silent". "From" is a preposition, so it needs an object, and adjectives are not used as objects. Please explain the reason to me and give me some more examples like this in which adjectives come after prepositions without "being". |
We know that nouns, object pronouns, and noun equivalents follow prepositions, but adjectives, adverbs and prepositional phrases can follow prepositions too:
1. I bought it from this store. (The noun phrase this store follows the preposition from.)
2. You are coming with us. (The object pronoun us follows the preposition with.)
3. I am thinking of becoming a teacher. (The noun equivalent becoming a teacher follows the preposition of.)
4. Things went from bad to worse. (The adjective bad follows the preposition from; the adjective worse follows the preposition to.)
5. We regard his attitude as arrogant. (The adjective arrogant follows the preposition as.)
6. He lived here until recently. (The adverb recently follows the preposition until.)
7. She retrieved a book from under the bed. (The prepositional phrase under the bed follows the preposition from.)
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Anuradha Chepur
Joined: 20 May 2006
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| Posted: Sun Nov 12, 2006 8:23 pm Post subject: |
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Sometimes, adjectives can double up as nouns:
the young, the old, the good, the bad, the ugly, the bold, the beautiful and so on.
In your sentences, wealthy and silent function as nouns.
Whenever a non-NP category is found in an NP position, it is usually treated as an NP as it happens with gerunds. |
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