W dniu 2014-03-08 11:16, Kumara Bhikkhu pisze: > Here's where it came from: > Others however are more or less combinations of both samatha and...
It is difficult to say whether "more or less" is supposed to modify "combinations" or "are", as the sentence structure is slightly unclear, and without further context, it is difficult to decide. I suppose you may be right that this belongs to "are", but then I cannot be really sure that it will be easy to make an exception for such a structure. Maybe a pattern for inflected plural "be" + "more or less" would do it in this case. Indeed, there are multiple cases of this. > You will find in dictionaries that "more or less" is an idiom that > functions as one adverb. Yes, of course; I don't deny this. > In the above, it means > "to some degree". In http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/more+or+less, > we find an example: /This room is more or less an extra - we don't > really need it. Yep; my problem was that I only saw a part of the sentence. Marcin > > /kb > > Marcin Miłkowski wrote thus at 05:08 PM 08-03-14: > >> There can be a verb or an uncountable noun, or an adverb. In the corpus >> (GLOWBE) all matches of "more or less" + plural noun turned out to be >> verbs misrecognized as nouns. >> >> I may be wrong but I think "more or less combinations" is not standard >> English. If you can find Charles Dickens or Jane Austin, or anything >> that is definitely standard English, with this expression, I will add an >> exception to the rule. >> >> Regards, >> Marcin > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Subversion Kills Productivity. Get off Subversion & Make the Move to Perforce. > With Perforce, you get hassle-free workflows. Merge that actually works. > Faster operations. Version large binaries. Built-in WAN optimization and the > freedom to use Git, Perforce or both. Make the move to Perforce. > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=122218951&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk > > > > _______________________________________________ > Languagetool-devel mailing list > Languagetool-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/languagetool-devel > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Subversion Kills Productivity. Get off Subversion & Make the Move to Perforce. With Perforce, you get hassle-free workflows. Merge that actually works. Faster operations. Version large binaries. Built-in WAN optimization and the freedom to use Git, Perforce or both. Make the move to Perforce. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=122218951&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Languagetool-devel mailing list Languagetool-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/languagetool-devel
