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1) For her to clean the house every day is absolutely necessary.
2) This music is too hard for me to play correctly.
Do the emboldened prepositional phrases function as the suborinator of the underlined infinitival clauses?
Do they introduce the whole infinitival clause or just the agent of the clause?
What's the function of the infinitival clause in the second sentence? Does it modify 'hard'?
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Persian Learner Do the emboldened prepositional phrases function as the subor d inator of the underlined infinitival clauses? Only the preposition itself is in bold. Persian Learner Do they introduce the whole infinitival clause or just the agent of the clause?
- Persian Learner Do the emboldened prepositional phrases function as the subor d inator of the underlined infinitival clauses?
- Only the preposition itself is in bold.
- Persian Learner Do they introduce the whole infinitival clause or just the agent of the clause?
- Since anything at the beginning "introduces", we'd have to say that 'for' introduces the agent and that it introduces the whole clause.
- Some sources say 'for' is the complementizer.
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Persian LearnerDo the emboldened prepositional phrases function as the subordinator of the underlined infinitival clauses?
Only the preposition itself is in bold.
Persian LearnerDo they introduce the whole infinitival clause or just the agent of the clause?
Since anything at the
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