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Reaching out to him as an intellectual comrade-in-arms, the American journalist Walter Lippmann wrote to Hayek, saying: “No human mind has ever understood the whole scheme of a society … At best a mind can understand its own version of the scheme, something much thinner, which bears to reality some such relation as a silhouette to a man.” (The Guardian.)
What part of speech is some in the relative clause which bears to reality some such relation as a silhouette to a man?
Top answer
If analysed individually, "some" would be a determiner, but while "some such" can just about be understood as the sum of "some" and "such", it's probably best to consider it an idiomatic phrase in its own right.
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If analysed individually, "some" would be a determiner, but while "some such" can just about be understood as the sum of "some" and "such", it's probably best to consider it an idiomatic phrase in its own right.
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