Timeline for Can "As [adjective] as [noun] is" in the beginning of the sentence mean "Although/despite [noun] is [adjective]"?
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| Nov 20, 2014 at 18:01 | vote | accept | Ilya Streltsyn | ||
| Nov 15, 2014 at 23:12 | answer | added | Colin Fine | timeline score: 1 | |
| Nov 15, 2014 at 23:01 | vote | accept | Ilya Streltsyn | ||
| Nov 20, 2014 at 18:01 | |||||
| Nov 15, 2014 at 20:18 | answer | added | WS2 | timeline score: 1 | |
| Nov 15, 2014 at 20:11 | comment | added | Dan Bron | "As silent as a cat" is attributing the quality of silence to the high degree which cats enjoy is; "As silent as a cat is, ..." with the copula and comma, is about to introduce a big old but. | |
| Nov 15, 2014 at 20:04 | review | First posts | |||
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| Nov 15, 2014 at 20:01 | history | asked | Ilya Streltsyn | CC BY-SA 3.0 |