Timeline for "a couple": adverbial phrase
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| Jul 31, 2020 at 10:26 | comment | added | GJC | Does a couple here mean some or exactly two? Secondly, currently the Wiktonary entry for a number of reads "1. Several A number of people have commented on it. 2. several of I spoke with a number of them about it. I do not know whether several (of) would be a better approach. | |
| Jul 30, 2020 at 21:07 | comment | added | Xanne | Why do you need this? What problem are you having? What don’t you understand? | |
| Jul 30, 2020 at 20:46 | comment | added | John Lawler | I think part of the problem is that Garner doesn't have any idea of real English grammar. Apparently he thought a couple was an adverb instead of a quantifier. And the distinction being talked about deals with definite and indefinite noun phrases and how their quantifiers interact with other grammatical particles. | |
| Jul 30, 2020 at 19:52 | answer | added | herisson | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jul 30, 2020 at 19:47 | history | edited | GJC | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 30, 2020 at 19:32 | history | edited | GJC | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 30, 2020 at 19:23 | comment | added | GJC | @herisson pay attention to the position of more shorturl.at/tvHL0 | |
| Jul 30, 2020 at 19:17 | comment | added | herisson | Can you link to the Ngrams you mention in the last sentence? I don’t understand what “a couple of more days“ is being compared to (I would only ever say “a couple more days”) | |
| Jul 30, 2020 at 18:59 | history | asked | GJC | CC BY-SA 4.0 |