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Park sang joon Posted 12 years ago
Grammar

A missing verb

I can understand some of their hesitation (since a good majority of the film features children either killing or being killed), but there's just no excuse to not give this thing some kind of release – and with an October 2008 release out of the question I don't when they could give it a proper release.

I have extracted some from the one of reviews of "Trick 'r Treat (2007)" on IMDB.
I'd like to know where I can find the verb of "I don't."
Thank you in advance for your help.
  

Top answer

It just seems to be a missing "know". There's nothing in the rest of the sentence it could refer to, nor would it fit with the following clause introduced by "when". Semantically it has to be "know".

— Mathiashm

  • It just seems to be a missing "know".
  • There's nothing in the rest of the sentence it could refer to, nor would it fit with the following clause introduced by "when".
  • Semantically it has to be "know".
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It just seems to be a missing "know". There's nothing in the rest of the sentence it could refer to, nor would it fit with the following clause introduced by "when". Semantically it has to be "know".
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Something has gone wrong with that sentence. Perhaps the word "know" has been accidentally omitted after "I don't".
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Thank you both for your very valuable answers. Emotion: smile
I'd like to know whether that omission is acceptable.
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park sang joonI'd like to know whether that omission is acceptable.
No, it's just a typing error.
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Random reviews on IMDB are not a good source of correct English. It would make more sense for you to try to learn from professional writing that has been edited, not random individuals' careless, informal comments.
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khoff It would make more sense for you to try to learn from professional writing that has been edited, not random individuals' careless, informal comments.
Beyond a certain stage of learning, I do not especially agree with this. If you want to use English for real, then you need to be able to cope with badly written or typo-ridden language too, especially nowa
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I would agree that English learners should (eventually) learn to understand bad English -- I just don't think it makes sense to try to analyze whether something is a past participle or a predicate adjective or whatever when it's actually just a mistake.
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khoffI just don't think it makes sense to try to analyze whether something is a past participle or a predicate adjective or whatever when it's actually just a mistake.
Indeed.
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