Timeline for Is "one" unnecessary in this quote of Melville?
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| Sep 19, 2020 at 11:20 | history | edited | John Smith | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
added 52 characters in body
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| Sep 18, 2020 at 10:06 | answer | added | jimalton | timeline score: 1 | |
| Sep 17, 2020 at 22:21 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Sep 17, 2020 at 0:34 | comment | added | Araucaria - Him | Please see Sven Yarg's comments and also my comments to @Mari-Lou A . Unfortunately, your chosen answer is wildly incorrect and also misleading for future readers. | |
| Sep 11, 2020 at 15:53 | comment | added | User1000547 | Moby Dick is full of unnecessary words, one (heh) more won't make much of a difference | |
| Sep 11, 2020 at 15:41 | comment | added | Jason Goemaat |
One is a pronoun referring to the 'classification' in the first part of the sentence, outline is an adjective. It could be rewritten if only an easy outline classification for the present, but repeating the word classification seems unwieldy. 'one' is a shortcut for referring to a previously mentioned person or thing.
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| Sep 10, 2020 at 15:11 | comment | added | JonathanZ | Yep, outline as adjective is what makes sense to me too. | |
| Sep 10, 2020 at 1:10 | comment | added | Nico A | @MichaelHardy Yeah, to me "outline" clearly seems like it's modifying "one", i.e. "a classification, but only an outline one". The people here seem much more knowledgeable than me though, so I'd like to know why that isn't true. | |
| Sep 10, 2020 at 0:28 | comment | added | Michael Hardy | Maybe "outline" is being used here as an adjective. | |
| Sep 9, 2020 at 21:04 | vote | accept | John Smith | ||
| Sep 9, 2020 at 21:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackEnglish/status/1303800373182902274 | ||
| Sep 9, 2020 at 20:31 | answer | added | Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' | timeline score: 21 | |
| Sep 9, 2020 at 18:45 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Sep 9, 2020 at 17:47 | answer | added | Anya | timeline score: 9 | |
| Sep 9, 2020 at 13:31 | answer | added | Edwin Ashworth | timeline score: 10 | |
| Sep 9, 2020 at 11:45 | history | edited | John Smith | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Made a sentence less redundant.
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| Sep 9, 2020 at 11:44 | comment | added | Peter Shor | The difference the passage with and without "one" is the between an "outline classification" and an "outline". | |
| Sep 9, 2020 at 11:07 | comment | added | Greybeard | I would agree with you on punctuation, but otherwise you are judging Melville's style rather than his grammar. Melville was born 200 years ago, and style changes. | |
| Sep 9, 2020 at 11:03 | answer | added | Lawrence | timeline score: 29 | |
| Sep 9, 2020 at 10:44 | history | asked | John Smith | CC BY-SA 4.0 |