1. What are the parts of the sentence ?
Given the stakes, making our best and brightest waste their time dancing like infomercial hosts is too high a price.

1. What are the parts of the sentence ?
2. Is "waste" name or verb ?
3. Why used "too high a price" instead of "a too high price" ?

Question

1. What are the parts of the sentence ?
Given the stakes, making our best and brightest waste their time dancing like infomercial hosts is too high a price.

1. What are the parts of the sentence ?
2. Is "waste" name or verb ?
3. Why used "too high a price" instead of "a too high price" ?

Answer

Waste is a verb. Too high a price means that the price is too high, a too high price would be an actual number (The candle is sold at too high a price). A too high price is in terms of money, and a too high price is well being of people or something less so physical and concrete.

Answer

The main verb here is "is".
waste = verb

To your third question - because that is the right way, and the other way is the wrong way.

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