"as" and "though" : speical word order

(我自己的筆記)

看到有人問一個我沒看過的句型所以查了一下，還真的有:(主要是 noun + as clause, 其中的noun沒有單複形變化，也不需要加冠詞)

"Practical English Usage", by M.S. 3rd edition

71 as and though:  speical word order
adjective/adverb/noun + as clause
As and though can be used in a special structure .... In this case they both mean 'although', and suggest an emphatic contrast. (In AmE only as is normally used like this; though is unusual.)

Cold as/though it was, we went out. (=Although it was very cold, ...)
......
Scot though she was, she supported the English team.

Occasionally as ... to mean 'because'.

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In American English, as ... as is common.

As cold as it was, we went out.

UPDATE: 2/28/2019

"Practical English Usage" 4th edition 的這部份有更新。基本上就是加註接在 noun 之後的只有 though 的用法，as 不行。

END of update

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例子是有了(Scot though....)，但是不知道為什麼作者沒有另外標 as  第四版有加註。參考前頭的UPDATE。Google Books是有找到些例子(e.g. ..., great player as he is, ....)，但是沒找到近代例子實在是...
後來我換找The Corpus of Contemporary American English，換了幾個patterns去找，總算找到了一個，但是那是引一段"Oliver Twist"的內容，也是"古書":

Child as he was, he was desperate with hunger, and reckless with misery. He rose from the table; and advancing to the master, basin and spoon in hand, said: somewhat alarmed at his own temerity:
'Please, sir, I want some more.'

同一句也有"Child though he was, he ..."的版本，只是例子只有兩個。

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對了，Longman 上頭也有這條，只是沒有noun + as clause的例句。

http://www.ldoceonline.com/dictionary/as_2
.........
6 though:
......
- As popular as he is, .....

其它(大本)字典也有。 例句少些而已。(目前正在想辦法找近代些的例子)

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https://www.usingenglish.com/forum/threads/269244-One-sentence-has-two-clause-but-no-any-conjunction?p=1476038&viewfull=1#post1476038

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 ... concessive clause.
1. "Bad as he is, he has some good points."
   a. He says that some people now prefer the subjunctive: "Bad as he may be, he has some good points."

2. ... in older English ... would have been: "As bad as he is, ...."
3. .... first "as" has disappeared.
...
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