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Tkacka15 Posted 8 years ago
Grammar

Cheap organic food

Cheap organic food is still difficult to come by.

(Cambridge Dictionary website.)

Is Cheap organic food both a subject of the sentence above and an object of the verb to come by at the same time?

  

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No, "to come by" complements "difficult". "still difficult to come by" complements the copular "is". The whole predicate is an adjective phrase.

— Persian Learner

  • No, "to come by" complements "difficult".
  • "still difficult to come by" complements the copular "is".
  • The whole predicate is an adjective phrase.
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No, "to come by" complements "difficult".

"still difficult to come by" complements the copular "is". The whole predicate is an adjective phrase.

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