Timeline for Omission of "is" in "She thought the study of Latin a waste of time."
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| Aug 30, 2019 at 19:57 | comment | added | Janus Bahs Jacquet | Oh yeah, so it is – I think I read it as “so the kitchen turned me into a new pizza” earlier and didn’t think of it closely enough to realise that’s nonsense. :-p I don’t think you have to change the examples, but perhaps point out that they’re not all examples of the same structure and that adding copulas in won’t work for all of them. | |
| Aug 30, 2019 at 16:31 | history | edited | tchrist♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Aug 30, 2019 at 16:30 | comment | added | tchrist♦ | @JanusBahsJacquet Example 6 is also an IO/DO case, BTW. I had originally had ”I thought him home at the time” which you can add little words to so that it reads “I thought that he was at home at the time” even though there’s no need to. But I was worried about the locative complement unnecessarily confusing people. Should I put back the original? I was trying to use objective pronouns to show that you can’t just swap in a tensed be without changing the case into nominative for the tensed verb. | |
| Aug 30, 2019 at 15:13 | comment | added | Janus Bahs Jacquet | Your example 3 seems mismatched to the rest – it’s a ditransitive find with IO and DO, rather than a transitive verb with DO + object compliment like the others (so unlike the others you cannot add in a linking to be there). Was that intentional? | |
| Aug 30, 2019 at 14:41 | history | edited | tchrist♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Aug 30, 2019 at 14:31 | history | answered | tchrist♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |