Timeline for "Isn't it time you stopped acting the goat"- Is this correct grammatically?
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| Oct 2, 2013 at 22:12 | comment | added | WendiKidd | @snailboat I agree. Act the fool was the first thing I thought of when I read this question, even though I'd never heard act the goat before. | |
| Oct 2, 2013 at 18:48 | comment | added | user230 | Or you could look at Collins. Senses 17-19 are listed as copula, which is to say that in these senses it takes a predicative complement. Specifically, sense 17 is to pose as; play the part of ⇒ to act the fool. I think this is the same usage in act the goat. | |
| Oct 2, 2013 at 18:38 | history | answered | Hellion | CC BY-SA 3.0 |