Questions tagged [predicate-frames]
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What is verb tense consistency?
"To his great astonishment and mortification, Sticky saw his parents begin trying less and less to find him, instead devoting their time and energy toward the proper disposal of their newfound riches"
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I made him laugh vs I made him to laugh
Why dowe use a bare infinitive after let, make, bid etc.?
And if we use a to infinitive before them as in the second sentence written above, then what does that now mean?
I am very, very, very ...
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What's the difference between using “of” and using “with” when showing a cause?
What is the sense of a sentence when of and with are variously used to show the cause of something?
He died of cancer.
He was shivering with cold.
Why isn’t it like this, or can it be? If it can be, ...
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To be aware of something
Do you have any medical/mobility/health concerns of which we should be aware?
Do you have any medical/mobility/health concerns of which we should be aware of?
Which of the above sentences is correct?
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The “that” elimination problem
The sentence
I marveled that you chuckled that I said "juxtaposition".
suffers from "that" overload. We'd all agree.
It's easy to slim either 'that'. Hence either
I marveled you chuckled that I ...
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“I know him ʙᴇɪɴɢ honest” vs “I know him ᴛᴏ ʙᴇ honest”
The intended original sentence before conversion is:
I know that he is an honest man.
I want to know about these two possible reformulated versions of that sentence that replace the original’s ...
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What is the form of a verb after “achieve” [closed]
Which form is correct, achieve+to+verb or achieve+verb+ing?
I have achieved to play piano well.
I have achieved playing piano well.
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Does the verb “ban” take a gerund or infinitive as its complement? [closed]
Which one below is correct while using the verb ban?
Plastic bottle using was banned by government in the country.
Government banned to use plastic bottle in the country.
Plastic bottle was banned ...
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“It's ok to somebody” sentence structure
I corrected a student as she had made the sentence "it's ok to Martin". I know that this sentence structure is incorrect, she asked why I had made the correction and I am having difficulty explaining ...
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imperative to -ing [duplicate]
Which one is right?
the degree is imperative to consolidating my grasp on concepts and keeping me abreast of upcoming upgrades
the degree is imperative to consolidate my grasp on concepts and keep me ...
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Is expression “It does us no harm.” grammatically correct?
I would write it with "to":
"It does to us no harm."
or
"It does no harm to us".
Similar example from https://www.macmillandictionary.com/dictionary/british/do-to
"I’ll never forgive him for ...
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“To agree with someone”: is that prepositional phrase an adverbial or a nominal one?
In this sentence:
I agree with you.
What is the function of the prepositional phrase ”with you” there? Is it an adverb or noun?
If it is an adverb, then what type of adverb is this?
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Verbal regency using “afraid”
I am a Portuguese speaker and in my mother tongue there is something called 'verbal regency', and I think there ought to be something similar in English! Since I am also an English teacher I told one ...
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Does the verb “enable” take a bare-infinitive complement like “let” or a to-infinitive complement like “allow”? [duplicate]
How can you predict which verbs take which type of infinitive as their complements? For example, is the to before open here mandatory, forbidden, or optional?
The Gold Monetization Scheme will ...
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proud to be & proud of being
I have the following two sentences which I would like to confirm the difference in meaning for.
I am proud to be a nurse.
I am proud of being a nurse.
I'm mainly wondering about the difference in ...
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Passive voice sentence [closed]
I saw an idiom in the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, be
had,
defined there as:
to be tricked or fooled by someone
And I saw its usage like this
She doesn’t want to buy a used car because she’s ...
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difference in meaning between 2 phrases [duplicate]
I need to know the difference between these two sentences 1)He stopped to playing football 2)He stopped playing football
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Infinitive of Purpose or For [duplicate]
Could you please tell me which usage is correct ?
'I need money to start a business'
'I need money for starting a business'
Actually the first one sounds more natural to me and also I know for is ...
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“Replace with” versus “replace by”
I often see "replace with" and "replace by" used interchangeably, but this doesn't sound right to me:
I replaced that component by this one.
I would use "with" in such a sentence. "By" only seems ...
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“Support on the project” or “support with the project” [closed]
What would be the correct preposition to use?
Thanks for your support on/with the project.
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Differences between Case Frames and Semantic role labeling
I'm learning about some basic linguistics theory and have come across case frame analysis and semantic role labeling as methods of determining agents within sentences, and arguments for verbs.
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How does one know when to use a gerund or an infinitive?
As a native speaker of English, the gerund version of this sentence sounds better:
infinitive:
When used together in chains,
extension methods are an unprecedented
tool to produce extremely ...
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When should a verb be followed by a gerund instead of an infinitive?
Some verbs are followed by ing, e.g. I enjoy swimming. We can't say I enjoy to swim. Likewise, some verbs are followed by to, e.g. I decided to make a plan.
Which particular verbs are followed by ...
