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Panda cpu 497 Posted 4 years ago
Grammar

Can anyone explain this sentence grammatically for me, please!!

It is highly desirable that from every product in regular production, sample be withdrawn periodically

- Is " be withdrawn" called Absolute construction in grammar? But I think "be" is unnecessary.

  

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panda cpu 497 - Is " be withdrawn" called Absolute construction in grammar? But I think "be" is unnecessary. "Be" is the subjunctive form.

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  • panda cpu 497 - Is " be withdrawn" called Absolute construction in grammar?
  • But I think "be" is unnecessary.
  • "Be" is the subjunctive form.
  • " The subjunctive is in the process of dying out, and the use we see here is on life support.
  • Even I, who adore the subjunctive, might say "samples are", and I think most Brits would never say "be" there.
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panda cpu 497- Is " be withdrawn" called Absolute construction in grammar? But I think "be" is unnecessary.

"Be" is the subjunctive form. The sentence is faulty, by the way, in that it should be "samples", the comma is unnecessary, and "withdrawn" is a wrong word for "drawn": "It is highly desirable that from every product in regular production samples be d

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panda cpu 497Is " be withdrawn" called Absolute construction in grammar?

No. That would be something like the following:

The samples being withdrawn periodically, all operations in the factory were running according to plan.

Absolute construction = subject + participle + complement, and the complement is optional.

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