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thanks Jenny all of those you listed are prepositions really i think... the test is putting them in a full sentence such as:
The boy is 6 feet tall.
tall = adjective
6 feet is a measurement phrase.
and they felicitously combine! :-)
thanks for trying!
i'm interested to see if one can characterize all the adj. that to license measure phrases semantically. For example, perhaps they are all adjectives that measure only time and one-dimensional space, or an abstract comparative scale. (but no multi-dimensional scales for example! :-) )
best!
blessings! :-)
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"The hotel has three rooms vacant."
"Kruger 60 is four parsecs distant."
Sounds good to me, but my ear may be off.
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The boy is 6 feet tall.
One can also say: The boy is 6 foot tall.
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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nahh. your ear can't be off. that's what linguistics is about :-)
however:
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1. "The hotel has three rooms vacant."
the structure of the sentence is different than may appear...
three rooms is not modifying vacant... or measuring vacancy... the actual structure is something like
"The hotel has three rooms [that are] vacant."
2. "Kruger 60 is four parsecs distant."
this may be ok, but i suspect it's an effect of scientific jargon and not natural language... does the following work equally well for you?
"The Empire State Building is 4 blocks distant"
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tx!
blessings! :-)
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lol :-)
yes sorry, i meant actual explicit measuring units,
freezing and boiling below are just like "very"
and intelligence is a noun not adjective!
but thanks for creativity!
m y well, I think there is some room for inexplicitness in your categorizations! freezing and boiling are very definite lower and upper bounds, respectively, on the temperature scale. and, although I admit to stretching this point, I meant to say "he is MENSA intelligent", which is another bounded measure, by MENSA definition!
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i hear you. i think that while freezing and boiling may indeed define an actual measurement, here they serve as a description of "cold/hot" respectively, and not a measurement of them...
to me they don't seem to be answering e.g. "what is the degree of their coldness?" but rather give a description (precise as it may be). i do concede unclarity. apologies.
blessings! :-)
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One thousand nitpicks deep. 
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