“buy… clever” & “buy… miserable”
Do you really have a choice to buy your kids clever? By sending cats to a Holland Park hothouse, you must buy them miserable. Is your child gifted? ” Get over it
” ” As far as I know, clever and miserable are both adjectives, not nouns. Why was it that used to buy? Is this an idiomatic way of saying You can’t buy your kids intelligence and you’re probably buying them (moral) misery? What is the origin of the idiom used in this article? I’m not familiar with C
language of the Arab world. It’s very difficult to read it.
In this is a case of the author using adjectives as nouns as a sort of grammatical liberty, as you suggested.
If you can’t buy your kids
clever implies that “clever” is some sort of object, presumably the state of your kids being clever. AND
you’re probably buying them miserable
means that “miserable” is the same sort of object, again, the state of your kids being miserable.
If you wanted to give the perfect grammatical version, you could
say, You can’t buy your children cleverness, but by sending them to some hideous Holland Park hothouse, you’re probably buying them misery.
Which is mostly what you thought in your question?
You’re reading it a wrong way. Should I buy the smartest toys and gifts for my children? You have to work on them and show them how to be smart and clever.
Why can’t I get it black with my shirt? Is black an adjective here and describes an item.
Can I take him home clean? How do you take a dog home?
Why?
In this is a case of the author using adjectives as nouns as a sort of grammatical liberty, as you suggested.
If you can’t buy your kids
clever implies that “clever” is some sort of object, presumably the state of your kids being clever. AND
you’re probably buying them miserable
means that “miserable” is the same sort of object, again, the state of your kids being miserable.
If you wanted to give the perfect grammatical version, you could
say, You can’t buy your children cleverness, but by sending them to some hideous Holland Park hothouse, you’re probably buying them misery.
Which is mostly what you thought in your question?
How do people talk about their children?
What is your son’s good manners and imagination? Why is he so smart?
I want my daughter to be happy The
adjectival forms are fine as predicate adjectives following various forms of the verb to be.
Why does Quora quote “Why is it sad”? Any such verb is used as an adjective. It uses the non-standard adjectival form for emphasis. Illustrated literary license for non-literary writers.
There is a common aphorism in the US using similar constructions (although the adjectives are used nominatively rather than as predicates)
Pretty fades but stupid is forever.
Why does beauty fade but stupidity is forever?
In this is a case of the author using adjectives as nouns as a sort of grammatical liberty, as you suggested.
If you can’t buy your kids
clever implies that “clever” is some sort of object, presumably the state of your kids being clever. AND
you’re probably buying them miserable
means that “miserable” is the same sort of object, again, the state of your kids being miserable.
If you wanted to give the perfect grammatical version, you could
say, You can’t buy your children cleverness, but by sending them to some hideous Holland Park hothouse, you’re probably buying them misery.
Which is mostly what you thought in your question?
If you buy the wise people and buy them miserable means that by spending money, you make them wise.
In this case, what you buy them is education.
How do I buy my kids clever?
No matter
how much money you spend on education, books or training, if your kids aren’t smart, no amount of buying stuff will make them smart.
What is the grammatical construct that is used in Edwin Ashworth’s answer?
If you buy the wise people and buy them miserable means that by spending money, you make them wise.
In this case, what you buy them is education.
How do I buy my kids clever?
No matter
how much money you spend on education, books or training, if your kids aren’t smart, no amount of buying stuff will make them smart.
What is the grammatical construct that is used in Edwin Ashworth’s answer?
Is clever and miserable also adjectives? Does the usage encapsulate a transitive link-verb structure (the transitive object of the verb)? It is a non standard example, similar to
Quote me happy.
What are some examples
of hammered metals (like an aluminum bar)?
She shot the gangster dead, he was murdered in his arms. The people tried to fix it, but she didn’t win.
The ants were eating the man alive. They were eating him down to the skull but in his hand he was alive.
For “expression” (the last depictive rather
than resultative) => (the last depictive rather than resultative)
You’re reading it a wrong way. Should I buy the smartest toys and gifts for my children? You have to work on them and show them how to be smart and clever.
Why can’t I get it black with my shirt? Is black an adjective here and describes an item.
Can I take him home clean? How do you take a dog home?
Why?
