a monster of a dog

[AnastasiaRU]

Hello! I am conducting a research in English linguistics, which concerns with a certain type of N of N phrases like ‘a giant of a man’, ‘a love of a child’, ‘a monster of a dog’, etc. I collected a considerable amount of data with the examples of use of such types of phrases from the fiction books, but I would like to have a native speakers’ response (which is quite hard to do in this part of Russia I’m living in). What I need is just a small form of 10 sentences with the gaps that has to be filled (it is available at http://www.globalnetworksystems.com/Form.doc). If there are any english native speakers ready to help, please fill in this form and send it to EMAIL REMOVED - Send PM to This User Instead.

[Tdol]

The URL brought up an error message for me.

[BobK]

Originally Posted by AnastasiaRU

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Where did that one come from? It looks rather odd to me - unless 'love' means something like 'darling'. If 'love' is an abstract noun, it should be

"the love of a child"

or

"a child's love"

b
ps - Tdol

It works if you cut&paste the link into a browser.

[Tdol]

Is it something like 'a darling of a child'?

Thanks for the tip.

[Brian Boyd]

A whale of a time

A hell of a problem

A slip of a lass


Brian

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