Don Karnage
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to be + noun instead of adjective
Dear teachers,
I've found very interesting sentence in one English handbook, but it contradicts with everything I knew before:
"The leaves on that tree are a beautiful colour".
Here, the word "colour" is a noun. Isn't it more correctly to say "the leaves on that tree HAVE a beautiful colour"?
Maybe it is just an unpopular construction, but it is gramatically correct, so we can say in a similar way, for example:
1) This boy is a nice bicycle.
2) This girl is long hair.
Dear teachers,
I've found very interesting sentence in one English handbook, but it contradicts with everything I knew before:
"The leaves on that tree are a beautiful colour".
Here, the word "colour" is a noun. Isn't it more correctly to say "the leaves on that tree HAVE a beautiful colour"?
Maybe it is just an unpopular construction, but it is gramatically correct, so we can say in a similar way, for example:
1) This boy is a nice bicycle.
2) This girl is long hair.