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Miss_Alel�
Argentina

Here ´s another one...
 
Once  I wrote, in a lesson plan, the expression: "I �ll make Ss read the text" or something like that... and my teacher (At the teaching trainee course) Corrected like this: "too strong A verb" referring to the word MAKE... my question is... why did he use A before verb?
 
too strong A verb?

9 Apr 2009      





alex1968
Greece

Quickly before I leave for school...
 
The way it goes is like this:
 
too + adjective/adverb + to -infinitive
 
E.g.  It was too cold to swim.
 
but if you want to include a noun
 
too + adjective + a/an + noun
 
E.g. It was too cold a day to swim
 
This formula can only be used with countable nouns in the singular Smile
 
The same thing applies to
 
so + adj + a/an + noun + that-clause
 
It was so cold a day that we couldn �t swim

9 Apr 2009