Timeline for will be possible to be used
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| Jun 25, 2022 at 22:10 | history | edited | tchrist♦ |
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| May 5, 2013 at 16:03 | history | edited | RegDwigнt |
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| Sep 19, 2012 at 9:01 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackEnglish/status/248346000551452673 | ||
| Sep 18, 2012 at 15:20 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | Yes. Self-raising flour will be chosen / available to be used is OK if verbose, because the flour is what will be chosen / available and what will be used. But we are not thinking of X as being possible, but rather just its use, in the original. A natural way to describe the situation naxa is envisioning would be: Making a ladder will make access to the roof possible. Though this avoids the awkwardness with the tangled verbs by avoiding multiple verbs. | |
| Sep 18, 2012 at 15:13 | answer | added | John Lawler | timeline score: 6 | |
| Sep 18, 2012 at 14:56 | answer | added | Kris | timeline score: 2 | |
| Sep 18, 2012 at 14:49 | comment | added | RegDwigнt | Basically you are mixing up two different constructions, "it is possible to..." and "X is possible". I.e., I can't think of a situation in which "is possible" whose antedecent is the dummy it can be followed by an infinitive, unless you inject a "for X" the way Peter Short just demonstrated. X can't be the subject of both be possible and be used at the same time. | |
| Sep 18, 2012 at 14:48 | comment | added | n611x007 | @PeterShor thanks! I guess my original version is incorrect, then? | |
| Sep 18, 2012 at 14:44 | comment | added | n611x007 | @ЯegDwight, I see, thanks! I edited my question to ask what's wrong with my version. ps. You have a nice nick and one starting with that not-on-my-keyboard unicode key! :) | |
| Sep 18, 2012 at 14:43 | comment | added | Peter Shor | Another alternative: It will be possible for X to be used as function/role. | |
| Sep 18, 2012 at 14:41 | comment | added | RegDwigнt | It will be possible to use X as function/role. | |
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| Sep 18, 2012 at 14:39 | history | asked | n611x007 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |