Approved someone to do something?
I spent most of the Saturday morning after Thanksgiving 2000 waiting for the “New Guy.” That was the secret code for my successor, the future chairman and CEO of General Electric.
On Friday night, the board had unanimously approved Jeff Immelt to succeed me. I called him right away.
Hi, there. The sentences above are an excerpt from the book Jack: Straight from the Gut. I'm very confused about the structure here "approve someone to do something" because I didn't find this structure on any dictionary. Is this a correct structure?
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cat fold 525 I'm very confused about the structure here "approve someone to do something" because I didn't find this structure on any dictionary. I don't find it in dictionaries either; however, 'approve' is found from time to time in books and newspaper articles with that grammatical pattern. In the given case it seems to me to be an unusual way of saying something like these: The board approved the proposal for Jeff Immelt to succeed me.
- cat fold 525 I'm very confused about the structure here "approve someone to do something" because I didn't find this structure on any dictionary.
- I don't find it in dictionaries either; however, 'approve' is found from time to time in books and newspaper articles with that grammatical pattern.
- In the given case it seems to me to be an unusual way of saying something like these: The board approved the proposal for Jeff Immelt to succeed me.
- The board approved the proposal that Jeff Immelt (should) succeed me.
- , as is appropriate in any given situation where this grammatical pattern is used.
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cat fold 525I'm very confused about the structure here "approve someone to do something" because I didn't find this structure on any dictionary.
I don't find it in dictionaries either; however, 'approve' is found from time to time in books and newspaper articles with that grammatical pattern.
In the given case it seems to me to be an unusual way of sa
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