Timeline for What happened to the missing object or objects in “for us to define as we see fit”?
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| Jun 1, 2021 at 14:42 | comment | added | Lambie | to see fit is an idiom in English, as the Old Brixtonian says. | |
| Jun 1, 2021 at 14:18 | answer | added | A. B. | timeline score: 2 | |
| May 30, 2021 at 10:46 | answer | added | Divizna | timeline score: 1 | |
| May 27, 2021 at 5:42 | comment | added | BillJ | @dongyoungkim No: a preposition can have a clause as its complement. It is not restricted to just objects. | |
| May 27, 2021 at 3:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackEnglishLL/status/1397749523737415680 | ||
| May 27, 2021 at 0:16 | comment | added | Steve B053 | Don't forget: they is 3rd pers. subject pronoun; them a 3rd pers. object pronoun. This helps deconstruct the sentence & understand the paragraph. Also, a paragraph has only 1 topic, and 1 topic sentence. Paragraphs like this where the topic sentence isn't the first sentence can make it more difficult to comprehend the paragraph. It is long and requires a mental stamina to follow the author. In British English, it is not hard and fast, but this paragraph is considered argumentative or persuasive and presents two sides. Sort support sentences by side help clarify the argument. | |
| May 26, 2021 at 23:02 | comment | added | Colin Fine | Note that fit is an adverb (or possibly an adjective) not a verb here. | |
| May 26, 2021 at 19:53 | history | migrated | from english.stackexchange.com (revisions) | ||
| May 26, 2021 at 19:47 | comment | added | Kate Bunting | And, of course, Goethe wrote in German; this is a translation. | |
| May 26, 2021 at 19:26 | comment | added | Old Brixtonian | see fit is a phrase meaning consider it correct or acceptable (to do something). So the aims and objectives [...] are for us to define in a way we consider correct or acceptable. | |
| May 26, 2021 at 18:56 | comment | added | dongyoungkim | I know 'A prepositional phrase' is a group of words consisting of a preposition, its object, and any words that modify the object. Therefore, a preposition should not be followed by the verb like "see" from as we see fit. I can't understand your explanation (preposition "as") | |
| May 26, 2021 at 18:50 | comment | added | BillJ | Before you fret any more, consider that "as we see fit" is not a clause but a preposition phrase with "as" as head and the clause "we see fit" as its complement | |
| May 26, 2021 at 18:47 | history | asked | dongyoungkim | CC BY-SA 4.0 |