I have the following sentence:     Overfitting is meant to be a situation when the learned model has too strong a connection with the training set which can negatively affect accuracy in a new dataset.   I was given advice about using an article with "too strong a connection" but I am not sure about it. What do you think; should it be there?
You're too clever a man to imagine this.   The above sentence was , a man of excellent rhetorical skills.   Since he said it, I doubt it's wrong, grammatically. But, I wonder if there is an explanation for this. Because adjectives always come after the article not before it. e.g. You're a clever man.   How could this be, grammatically?
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