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Tkacka15 Posted 7 years ago
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Allowed to subsume all others
"She will say: “It has become a disturbing mantra in the last two decades that the maintenance of our strategic alliances – other than with Europe of course – is the consideration allowed to subsume all others."
(The Guardian.)
Is "allowed to subsume all others" a non-finite clause complementing the noun "the consideration" in the sentence above?
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That's correct. It describes the noun "the consideration", it has an infinitive in the clause ("to") and there is an embedded "that is" in clause.
- That's correct.
- It describes the noun "the consideration", it has an infinitive in the clause ("to") and there is an embedded "that is" in clause.
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That's correct. It describes the noun "the consideration", it has an infinitive in the clause ("to") and there is an embedded "that is" in clause.
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