Timeline for Fall/Come Under Investigation
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| Feb 7, 2016 at 17:56 | history | edited | Jasper |
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| May 26, 2015 at 2:40 | answer | added | DCShannon | timeline score: 2 | |
| May 26, 2015 at 2:21 | comment | added | DCShannon | @ruakh Interesting, sounds fine to me. I don't see any hits on Google NGrams, though. I do get hits including a few web article headings when I just Google the phrase. Doesn't exactly seem widespread. | |
| May 26, 2015 at 0:53 | comment | added | ruakh | @DCShannon: *"He became under investigation" sounds completely ungrammatical to me. Be can take a prepositional phrase as complement, but become generally cannot. (This is one weakness with the traditional classification of prepositional phrases as either "adjectival" or "adverbial"; even when they're basically "adjectival", they can't be used in all the ways that true adjective phrases can.) | |
| May 17, 2015 at 4:33 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackEnglishLL/status/599794895096807424 | ||
| May 16, 2015 at 23:44 | comment | added | DCShannon | @snailboat Those do sound a little odd. You can be under investigation though, so how about "he became under investigation"? | |
| May 4, 2015 at 5:20 | comment | added | user230 | Interesting question! It's significantly less common, but when I search COCA I do find a few examples of come under investigation: "He had come under investigation by postal and legal authorities as early as February, but they appeared to be making little progress in their efforts." I can't find any for fall under investigation. Anyway, come/fall under investigation both sound strange to me. | |
| May 4, 2015 at 4:53 | comment | added | Maulik V | for 'suspicion', 'came under' is okay but since investigation is something to do with him, I think "He was investigated for fraud' fits better. | |
| May 4, 2015 at 4:18 | history | asked | meatie | CC BY-SA 3.0 |