Timeline for When exactly can "to be" be omitted in the sentence? (want ~ to be p.p)
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| Jul 9, 2019 at 13:47 | vote | accept | dbwlsld | ||
| Jul 9, 2019 at 12:37 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | (Maybe The [football] referee wants his eyes tested / testing would be a better example.) | |
| Jul 9, 2019 at 12:36 | answer | added | Mohd Zulkanien Sarbini | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jul 9, 2019 at 12:34 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | Idiomatic He wants his head examined can be understood to mean He's crazy, he should be assessed by a psychiatrist (even though he himself probably has no such wish). Which isn't the same thing as He wants his to be head examined (not a very likely utterance, but that would almost certainly be understood to mean he really does have such a wish). Note that for some speakers He wants his head examining is also syntactically acceptable - it would normally be understood as carrying the first meaning here, but there's no way to include to be in that one. | |
| Jul 9, 2019 at 12:24 | comment | added | dbwlsld | @user178049 sorry I edited! | |
| Jul 9, 2019 at 12:23 | history | edited | dbwlsld | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 9, 2019 at 12:13 | comment | added | Mohd Zulkanien Sarbini | What is O.C? Please keep in mind that not everyone is familiar which the abbreviations you use. | |
| Jul 9, 2019 at 11:42 | history | asked | dbwlsld | CC BY-SA 4.0 |