Timeline for Is there subject missing in as-clause?
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| Nov 28, 2013 at 14:29 | comment | added | Damkerng T. | Absolutely true. However, when I see "it was easy as could be ...", I mentally parse it like "it was easy as (could be) ...", and then it's very easy for me to understand the expression. (Because the structure of "as could be" is quite parallel to "as ever".) | |
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| Nov 28, 2013 at 14:26 | comment | added | StoneyB on hiatus | @DamkerngT. But that means something different - not "as easy as possible" but "as easy as it always has/had been in the past". | |
| Nov 28, 2013 at 14:22 | comment | added | Damkerng T. | A more familiar phrase might be, "it was easy as ever". | |
| Nov 28, 2013 at 13:56 | history | answered | StoneyB on hiatus | CC BY-SA 3.0 |