Timeline for Is "a ways to go" grammatically correct?
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| May 3, 2014 at 1:14 | comment | added | ruakh | @DKrueger: That example doesn't really say anything, though, since we'd also say e.g. "three apples is all I need". | |
| Dec 7, 2011 at 0:56 | comment | added | Peter Shor | Very nice example. | |
| Dec 6, 2011 at 22:21 | comment | added | D Krueger | @PeterShor I don't believe it happens very often. There is the following dialog from the play The Founders by Paul Green: "GOODY. Come, let's walk by the river, Austin. AUSTIN. A little ways. GOODY. A little ways is all I need." | |
| Dec 6, 2011 at 20:44 | comment | added | Peter Shor | A comment on the dictionary entry--How would you use "a ways" (in the American sense we're talking about) with any verb, singular or plural? Its usual use is as a noun phrase acting as an adverb (e.g. "It's a ways farther down this road."), and I can't think how I'd ever use it as the subject of a sentence. | |
| Dec 6, 2011 at 5:18 | history | answered | D Krueger | CC BY-SA 3.0 |