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Old 29-Oct-2004, 10:21
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Thank you very much for the detail information guys.

What do these mean? Which one do I use?
1. Thank you very much for the detail information guys.
2. Thank you very much for the detailed information guys.

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Are these correct? If not, why?
1. Her beauty is beyond compare.
2. Her beauty is beyond compared. (Why is this wrong? This is not a to-be sentence?

(1) IS CORRECT. 'COMPARE' IS A NOUN, THE OBJECT OF THE PREPOSITION 'BEYOND'. THE PHRASE IS A NOUN COMPLEMENT OF THE SUBJECT, 'HER BEAUTY. 'BE' IS A COPULATIVE VERB.

(2) IS INCORRECT. ADJECTIVES CANNOT BE OBJECTS OF PREPOSITIONS.
I still don't really understand why is this wrong:
3. Her beauty is beyond compared.
But you can say this:
4. This car is compared to this car and this car is better.
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