[Note to self: I should re-read the relevant chapter in my English grammar when I get back home. Meanwhile, I’ll look at the overview here.]
(Semantically, “ten minutes’ walk” still means ‘a ten-minute walk’ rather than ‘the ten-minute walk’, but your point in reply to shminux was about syntax not semantics anyway.)
(Semantically, “ten minutes’ walk” still means ‘a ten-minute walk’ rather than ‘the ten-minute walk’, but your point in reply to shminux was about syntax not semantics anyway.)
The “proof of synonymy” looks like this:
ten minutes’ walk = (the walk) of (ten minutes) = a (walk of ten minutes) = a ten-minute walk
...the second “equality” being where semantics is invoked.
You’re right about “girls’ school”, but “a ten minutes’ walk” is wrong (should be “a ten-minute walk” or “ten minutes’ walk”).
Thanks. I myself am a non-native speaker.
[Note to self: I should re-read the relevant chapter in my English grammar when I get back home. Meanwhile, I’ll look at the overview here.]
(Semantically, “ten minutes’ walk” still means ‘a ten-minute walk’ rather than ‘the ten-minute walk’, but your point in reply to shminux was about syntax not semantics anyway.)
The “proof of synonymy” looks like this:
ten minutes’ walk = (the walk) of (ten minutes) = a (walk of ten minutes) = a ten-minute walk
...the second “equality” being where semantics is invoked.