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[English4everyone]

Hi

How is that possible to have inversion here?
Although there are a myriad of underlying advantages,

 

[Rover_KE]

Please complete the sentence.

 

[English4everyone]

Although there are a myriad of underlying advantages, I believe the disadvantages aren’t negligible.

 

[English4everyone]

There is no S-V inversion in that sentence.

I know that.
I mean is it possible to have inversion or reduction in the sentence I provided?

 

[TheParser]

Is it possible to have inversion or reduction?

NOT A TEACHER



Hello,

I believe in very elegant English, one could say something like:

"A myriad of underlying advantages though there are, I believe the disadvantages aren't negligible."

 

[GoesStation]

NOT A TEACHER



Hello,

I believe in very elegant English, one could say something like:

"A myriad of underlying advantages though there are, I believe the disadvantages aren't negligible."

Sorry, but that doesn't look at all elegant to me. It looks tortured.

 

[English4everyone]

Sorry, but that doesn't look at all elegant to me. It looks tortured.

So have you got any suggestions, please?

 

[emsr2d2]

It's not "a myriad of" anything. We just say "myriad".

"Although there are myriad underlying advantages, ..."

 

[English4everyone]

It's not "a myriad of" anything. We just say "myriad".

"Although there are myriad underlying advantages, ..."

But Longman says it exists.
https://www.ldoceonline.com/dictionary/a-myriad-of-something-myriads-of-something

 

[emsr2d2]

Well, I'll go to the foot of our stairs! My 'O' Level English Language teacher drummed into the class that only "myriad" (adjective) + noun is correct. If I ever bump into her again, I'll have a word!

 

[Tarheel]

I would believe Ems over Longman.

 

[emsr2d2]

I would believe Ems over Longman.

Thanks for the vote of confidence but a quick Google search told me that both "myriad + noun" and "a myriad of + noun" are apparently acceptable these days.

 

[GoesStation]

A myriad of something looks completely natural to me. If Ems gets pushback from her O-level English teacher, I'll be happy to back her up.

 

[Tdol]

'O' Level English Language

Aye, and Thomas Malory were alive and scribing in them there days. ;-)

 

[bubbha]

I was also taught that "a myriad of" is wrong.

Dictionaries can be too descriptivist in my opinion. I think it's a travesty that one notable dictionary has relented and recognized one of the meanings of "literally" to be "figuratively".

 

[Tdol]

It's actually quite an old usage, I believe.

 

[GoesStation]

It literally goes back centuries.

 

[Charlie Bernstein]

It's not "a myriad of" anything. We just say "myriad".

"Although there are myriad underlying advantages, ..."

In American English, both "myriad" and "a myriad of" are common.

 

[Charlie Bernstein]

Thanks for the vote of confidence but a quick Google search told me that both "myriad + noun" and "a myriad of + noun" are apparently acceptable these days.

Oh. Then it's okay over there, too.

 

[emsr2d2]

Oh. Then it's okay over there, too.

Allegedly. ;-)