og sc #4 ,thx

nickforget

刚查了张道真的词典，double这里是adj。。。

bewithjessie

thanks,sunyi001.

LZ,double is a "predeteminer",not verb,not adjective,not adverb.

jandjshi

what's a 'predeteminer'? Can you please give us another example?
thx

bewithjessie

double  predeterminer
double
twice as big, twice as much, or twice as many
double the amount/number/size etc

We'll need double this amount for eight people.

The value of the house is double what it was.

from <<Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English>>

jandjshi

Thank you, bewithjessie

This is from American Heritage:
predeterminer - An adjectival word that can stand before an article, a possessive pronoun, or another determiner, as all in all the flowers or both in both his children.

Therefore, a predeterminer is a special kind of adjective. Can we then conclude that "double", as used here, is an Adj?

bewithjessie

以下是引用jandjshi在2006-3-23 15:24:00的发言：
Thank you, bewithjessie

This is from American Heritage:
predeterminer - An adjectival word that can stand before an article, a possessive pronoun, or another determiner, as all in all the flowers or both in both his children.

Therefore, a predeterminer is a special kind of adjective. Can we then conclude that "double", as used here, is an Adj?

To be frankly,I got to know "predeterminer" yesterday

And I think we know how to use it is enough,I don't care it's a special kind of adjective or predeteminer, that's merely a term,right?

清清小蚂蚁

A survey by  the national councile of churchese showed that in 1986 there were 20763 female ministers . almost 9 percent of the nation's clergy ,  double the figure for 1977

1 题干中的almost前面是逗号吧

2 almost 9 percent of the nation's clergy ,是插入语吗？？

3 句子去掉almost 9 percent of the nation's clergy  变成

   A survey by  the national councile of churchese showed that in 1986 there were 20763 female ministers double the figure for 1977

那么划线的红色部分是做什么成分呢？？/