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Is this gramatically correct: "A count of how many of this item are in the game and where this card lies within that count"?
It is a syntactically valid string of words according to the conventions of the English language. Absent context, it doesn’t have any one clear meaning, but its syntax is unobjectionable.
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". . . as had the estate" - a relative clause?
It seems his brother had took and died, him as had the estate.
In examples like this and in very informal style (perhaps in regional dialects), "as" can be used without any trace of its ...
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Is this gramatically correct: "A count of how many of this item are in the game and where this card lies within that count"?
Well, it's not actually a full sentence, just a fragment. I'm guessing it's used to label something, or perhaps has been taken from its context, like
ItemCount: A count of how many...
Beyond, that, ...
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Is it grammatical to say "Here is very nice?"
Here is not a noun. It is an adverb meaning 'in this place'. Here is the book is another way of saying The book is here (the adverb is placed first to emphasise that you are showing the book to the ...
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Is it grammatical to say "Here is very nice?"
Here is very nice is grammatical but not usually how a native speaker would make a comment that focuses on the niceness, which would be instead It's very nice here.
However, if you've been looking for ...
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". . . as had the estate" - a relative clause?
“Him as had the estate” in this dialect can be paraphrased as “the one [brother] who had the estate.”
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". . . as had the estate" - a relative clause?
Mr Carthew had become a landed proprietor because his brother 'as had the estate' (who was the heir to the family estate) had died.
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