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| Dec 7, 2021 at 15:56 | comment | added | user142975 | In you case, we see just a sentence, whereas the term construction is very generic and can mean too many unrelated things. There is even a construction going on at my neighbour's flat. As for exceptionally articulate users here, you probably mean users who exceptionally cannot find a better application of their lives than to waste their time at Stackexchange. As for the downvotes, well, I can help with that, so if you insist… I hope you don't mind, sir. | |
| Dec 7, 2021 at 15:39 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | The question (and answer) were "understandable" enough to engage a couple of exceptionally articulate users here (J.R & StoneyB) in discussion / comments, and there are a total of 14 upvotes on this page (no downvotes yet! :) But I think you're just being misguidedly pedantic - any dictionary will confirm that structure and construction can be synonymous, and references to the meaning of this construction are common as muck in grammar / linguistics texts. | |
| Dec 7, 2021 at 15:29 | comment | added | user142975 | My point is not about whether this question is good/bad for a learner's site or about where you were, but about its understandability in general. Frankly, I simply don't think it's clear, and, given your other answer so far, I have no doubt you see it, too. | |
| Dec 7, 2021 at 15:26 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Dec 7, 2021 at 15:21 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | "Arguably this question isn't a good fit for a learners site, but we were where we were" | |
| Dec 7, 2021 at 15:17 | comment | added | user142975 | This doesn't change the fact that there is a problem with your question—I hope you see it. A structure is an abstract concept, a type of bracketing using certain parts of setence (or parts of speech) rather than specific words themselves. If you are really concerned with the quality of the site, consider improving your question. | |
| Dec 7, 2021 at 15:11 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | I think you mean you would like to closevote! Good luck with that! I assume you don't have enough rep to be able to actually see the original question. But note that What does this sentence structure mean? was copied verbatim from the original. | |
| Dec 7, 2021 at 15:05 | comment | added | user142975 | I vote to close this question because the structure alone cannot mean anything; it's only a full sentence that has a meaning. Note you wrote above: “What does this sentence structure mean?” I don't see a structure in your quotation anyway. | |
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| Feb 25, 2014 at 1:40 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackEnglishLL/status/438126393709580288 | ||
| Feb 24, 2014 at 14:53 | history | edited | FumbleFingers | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 24, 2014 at 14:48 | history | asked | FumbleFingers | CC BY-SA 3.0 |