I intend to see it carried out
Can we use a phrasal verb as an adverb or modifier? In the above sentence I think carried out is used as modifier.
If the function of carried out is different then please explain me properly. Thanks
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Can we use a phrasal verb as an adverb or modifier? In the above sentence I think carried out is used as modifier.
If the function of carried out is different then please explain me properly. Thanks
I intend to see it carried out
is probably best interpreted as a shortened form of
I intend to see that it is carried out.
CED lists the relevant sense of see:
see verb (MAKE CERTAIN)
C2 [ + (that) ] [which may often be deleted] to make certain that something happens:
[UK] See (that) you're ready by five, or there'll be trouble.
The receptionist said he will see (that) she is warned. [modified to fit example here]
So the string 'carried out' is verbal, not modifying 'it'. Replacing the transitive multi-word verb by a simplex synonym,
I intend to see it finished / I intend to see that it is finished.
.................
With 'I intend to see it finished', there is an alternative reading where 'finished' post-modifies the pronoun:
'I don't like seeing a half-built building; I intend to see it finished'
(with the usual sense for 'see').
And for the literal sense,
The man carried out on a stretcher was her brother
uses what some would see as a whiz-deleted construction – a reduced relative clause – modifying '[the] man'.
A modifier can be taken out without affecting the sentence structure. I do not think that is he case here.
I also think that the part that is to be named is "it carried out" as your sentence essentially is a variation of "I intend to see to X"
so in effect it is two phrasal verbs, one as object.