Timeline for Is the following sentence structure correct? — "How many story a building is it?", "How many person a tent is it?", "How many core a processor is it?"
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| Jul 26 at 16:40 | comment | added | Michael Lorton | @Loviii — yes, I think that is an excellent way to look at it. The tour is many days; the hike is five miles; the cargo is 10 tons. The predicate-compliment might not describe the subject entirely, but it measures the subject entirely. | |
| Jul 26 at 5:51 | comment | added | Loviii | @MichaelLorton I think I understood your explanation. According to it, if we have the phrase "a multi-day tour", we can rephrase it into "The tour is many days", because in terms of duration a tour consists only of days and nothing else. Is this right? Thanks. | |
| Jul 25 at 18:46 | comment | added | Michael Lorton | @Loviii — A building is five stories, and (almost) nothing else. The building consists of five stories. The most important part of a CPU is its cores (hence the names) but it has a lot of other things. You would not say “that mall is 12 shops”, because it also has a food court, a bunch of corridors, a parking lot, and so on. | |
| Jul 24 at 7:09 | comment | added | Loviii | If "The building is five stories" is correct, then I think "The processor is four cores" is also correct, right? Thanks. | |
| Jul 23 at 18:27 | comment | added | Michael Lorton | @Loviii — nope, “five-story” is a legit adjective, but you cannot use it in the copula form — or as least it would sound odd to a native speaker. | |
| Jul 23 at 17:55 | comment | added | Mari-Lou A | @Loviii The number of stories a building has is countable, as are the number of weeks in a vacation, and the number of stars a hotel boasts. But we often use the singular form: "a 40-story high rise building", "a two-week vacation", and "a five star hotel" Note that the singular noun is often hyphenated and acts like an adjective, it qualifies the noun it precedes. | |
| Jul 23 at 3:12 | comment | added | Loviii | You wrote "This building is five stories" is correct. Would it also be correct to say this without "-s": "This building is five-story" ? Thanks. | |
| Jul 22 at 18:18 | history | edited | Michael Lorton | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 22 at 14:59 | history | answered | Michael Lorton | CC BY-SA 4.0 |