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Anonymous Posted 9 years ago
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They do such work as locating explosives.
=They do work such as locating explosives.
In the former, 'such' seems to be a modifier, and In the latter, it appears to be a pronoun, the object of the verb work. Could it be this?
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Anonymous In the former, 'such' seems to be a modifier, It's a determiner in terms of part-of-speech tagging. Anonymous In the latter, it appears to be a pronoun, the object of the verb work. Could it be this?
- Anonymous In the former, 'such' seems to be a modifier, It's a determiner in terms of part-of-speech tagging.
- Anonymous In the latter, it appears to be a pronoun, the object of the verb work.
- Could it be this?
- If so, your sentence would be ungrammatical.
- ('work' is intransitive in that sense) They (do) work such as locating explosives.
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AnonymousIn the former, 'such' seems to be a modifier,
It's a determiner in terms of part-of-speech tagging.
AnonymousIn the latter, it appears to be a pronoun, the object of the verb work. Could it be this?
If so, your sentence would be ungrammatical. ('work' is intransitive in that sense)
They (do)
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