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Whoever hates shopping with the heat of a thousand suns has me beat by a good three suns.

Thanks!

I see.

Why do you laugh? (Though it is kind of a useless exercise because now I can't even remember what a submerged metaphor is, let alone all the other types.)
Don't you ever *need* to know some useless piece of information that you will promptly forget as soon as you find out?

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I take it that the Huddleston (An Intro to the Grammar of English) didn't do it for you then, Woody? Might I suggest one of the Quirk grammars instead? (SJ and Donnach swear by 'em). Reading that would sure beat beating yourself (and implicitly others) up about the "total" lack of an agreed/agreeab...

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Now that I understand adjective, noun, and regular complements this makes more sense.

Thanks for your patience,

Donna

Ok, I just educated myself on what stative and dynamic verbs are, which is what I should've done in the first place. Hope I'm not trying everyone's patience too much.

Donna

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I wonder what a class co-taught by all three of you would be like?

is this one of them?

She hated shopping with the heat of a thousand suns.

Is "with the heat of a thousand suns" a metaphor? Could it possibly be an adverbial metaphor? Or is it not a metaphor at all, but rather an adverbial phrase?

Thanks,

Donna

The AHD appears to be calling "such" an adjective and "as" a preposition. (and the other dictionary too - probably the same person wrote both examples anyway). Thanks for the explanation. I know some of my questions seem so prescriptivist, but I'm really just grasping at whatever rules I can find t...

I think it varies from country to country and who has time to pursue these things. I think you can copy something for yourself and your students can copy for themselves but you can't make a mass copy for the whole class or all your classes. It might be easier to make a copy to go on the overhead pr...