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| | 13 Gennaio 2011 15:18 |
| LeinNumero di messaggi: 3389 | Hello again Bilge
Do you mean
She's already too spoilt for my liking.
or maybe
She's already too spoilt in my opinion.
or
She already seems too spoilt to me.
or still something else...
'to me' in this sentence just doesn't seem quite right.
Thanks! |
| | 13 Gennaio 2011 15:52 |
| | Hello again Lein
I mean, this girl has already some spoilt behaviours towards me. Maybe we can change the word to me by towards me in the translation, can we? |
| | 13 Gennaio 2011 15:56 |
| LeinNumero di messaggi: 3389 | Ah, ok, I read the sentence completely the wrong way then.
How about this?
She already behaves in too spoilt a manner towards me.
It is a bit long but I can't seem to find a more concise way of expressing this... |
| | 13 Gennaio 2011 16:00 |
| | Oh, it is quite good and explains the meaning of the sentence well. It is OK for me. |
| | 13 Gennaio 2011 16:02 |
| | One more thing, wouldn't it be:
She already behaves in "a" too spoilt manner towards me. ? |
| | 13 Gennaio 2011 16:49 |
| LeinNumero di messaggi: 3389 | Hmm... No, but I don't know if there is a grammatical rule for that... It just sounds wrong. I have tried to find some sort of grammatical explanation but can't find a lot
Here is one (under number 1793):
http://www.archive.org/stream/newenglishgramma200sweeuoft/newenglishgramma200sweeuoft_djvu.txt
Oh, and here is a better one (page 59):
http://www.scribd.com/doc/19605867/mihai-mircea-zdrenghea-anca-luminita-greere-a-practical-english-grammar-with-exercises |
| | 13 Gennaio 2011 22:34 |
| | for me, we don't need to use "a manner". |
| | 14 Gennaio 2011 10:44 |
| LeinNumero di messaggi: 3389 | Would you rather see 'spoiltly'? That sounds very very weird. And 'spoilt' is an adjective, not an adverb, so 'she behaves spoilt' is gramatically wrong. ('she is spoilt' would be correct in terms of grammar, but not in terms of meaning I think.) |
| | 14 Gennaio 2011 17:25 |
| | Hmm, I don't know. I have just taken a look at the pages you told me, but there are too many things, couldn't find anything I just thought that as we say "in a good manner", we could also say "in a spoilt manner" and finally, "in a too spoilt manner". It is logical, isn't it? |
| | 14 Gennaio 2011 17:35 |
| LeinNumero di messaggi: 3389 | It is, but it doesn't work after 'too'. This is what the second reference says:
The indefinite article is placed AFTER an adjective (immediately before the noun in the singular) if that adjective is preceded by 'so', 'as', 'too', 'however', 'how':
It was too good a chance to be missed. |
| | 14 Gennaio 2011 17:52 |
| | OK, I see. Thanks for informing me. I have learnt a new thing thanks to you. |
| | 17 Gennaio 2011 12:42 |
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