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Anonymous Posted 18 years ago
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(are?) predicated on?

1span00I teach an English conversation class. A student asked if the second sentence below should read: 'All three 'are' predicated...' I believe it should, though I wonder if 'predicated' is the best possible word for this sentence. 02span02br
01span00'The World Trade Organization (WTO) is in the last throes of its Doha Development Round negotiations, the European Union is currently undertaking a "health check" on its Common Agricultural Policy and the whole world is opening biofuel plants as a technological fix to curb CO2 emissions and cope with escalating oil prices. All three predicated on the experience of half a century of food mountains, wine lakes and the West dumping its surplus food on the rest to the detriment of subsistence farmers around the globe.'02span02br
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0 Yes. All three 01b00are02b00 predicated on ...02br
00It may not be the best word, but it will do.02br
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0Thanks much.  Is there an easy way to explain why the 'are' is necessary?  Perhaps something along the lines of "the passive form of the transitive verb,  'predicated' requires the 'be' verb 'are'".  02br
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