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"she was too valuable a team
does this sentence not mean that she was so valuable that no one can disaprove her?
That's correct. No one can
That's correct. No one can LEGITIMATELY censure her. So, if someone censures here, those actions are NOT legitimate.
Hey, maybe you will have some
Someone who English is his main language 'upon' after commenting may probably just sound wrong, but I don't have these sound feelings.
In this question I stopped on 'prattle' and 'commented', and eventually chose 'commented' because, in addition to 'documentary' in the sentence, it sounded more official phrase than prattle.
Great question.
Great question.
The part about UPON involves a tricky area in English grammar called idioms.
When it comes to idioms, there are no formal rules regarding word choice; instead it's just "the way we say them."
For example, the sentence "Paris is different FROM Madrid" is idiomatically correct, whereas the sentence "Paris is different THAN Madrid" is idiomatically incorrect.
What's the grammatical rule here?
There's no rule; it's just the way we've agreed to compare things using the word DIFFERENT.
Similarly, the sentence "Joe commented ON the facts of the case" is idiomatically correct, whereas the sentence "Joe commented UPON the facts of the case" is idiomatically incorrect.
So if I understand you
That's correct. This is one
That's correct. This is one of the many examples of why English is harder to learn than other languages.