On Sun, 12 Jun 2005 14:25:08 GMT, Pine <pine@sbcglobal.net>
said:
> He was fundamentally too much a man of strong convictions to be
> correctly described as open-minded.
> He was too much a man, and too much an unusual type of man.
> But he was too much a man of appetites, too painterly, not to
> recognize the value,both sensual and moral, of a gesture.
> In the above three sentences, does 'much' function as a determiner or
> an adverb?
I vote for adverb, pure and simple.
(Note that in the above, "pure" and "simple" are adjectives,
not adverbs, so "purely and simply" would be wrong, wrong,
wrong.)
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