Hello everyone,
My question is about the adjective “flat” in below sentence:
He was intrigued by the acclaimed flat he received.
Why this adj has come after the noun? A case of author pen style or test register?
When can we ususally do that?
Thank you.
Looks to me as if “acclaimed” is the adjective and “flat” is the noun here, though I’m not sure what “flat” means in this context.
Where did you see this sentence? The word “flat” doesn’t makes sense in that context.
I wonder if “fiat” was intended.
The only way I can make grammatical sense of this is if “flat” means an apartment that happens to be be acclaimed and has been received by someone. That’s unlikely but not beyond the realm of possibility–I suppose some luxury apartments may very well be acclaimed, and some people may receive them in inheritances or divorces or such.
Whey you google this you get the sentence “He was intrigued by the acclaim flat he received.” on several websites. Acclaim not acclaimed. Which makes even less sense.
It seems to be part of some English as a second language teaching material for Persian students.
My guess is someone goofed and it’s just an error of some sort.
Yes.
Perhaps it should be “the acclaim that he received.”
I think you are right, and that still is weird, because “intrigued” is an odd main verb for that clause, but people trying to come up with example sentences come up with bizarre things all the time, especially if they are not native speakers themselves, and are good with straight up grammar, but unclear on usage.
When I was at Gallaudet, some of the example sentences that Deaf English professors came up with were…intriguing. The grammar was impeccable, but sometimes the usage was just strange, especially if they were trying to work in a particular word. You’d see stuff like “He applied the hammer to the nail,” which wasn’t wrong, but nobody ever says that.
Thanks everyone,
yeah, to err is human
How did you come with " … for Persian students. " necessarily ?
I don’t think so, it’s been complied and distributed globally, not for specific region.
Those are the sites that came up when I googled that sentence.
And other sites using Persian script, or with the .ir tld country code. I did see one Russian/Cyrillic page, but the rest were predominantly Persian/Iranian.
I see, Thanks for your time. That was the first time I visited those web pages, interesting. But I got the pdf file from a website which I can’t remeber the name but I’m sure enough that it was not a persian one, and the name of the file is " Essential Words for the TOEFL ".