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Anonymous Posted 9 years ago
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Do the underlined verbs catenate?
Comey, who was subsequently dismissed by Trump, writes that he understood the president to be asking him to drop the investigation into Flynn, an intervention he found “very concerning”. (The Guardian.)
Do the underlined verbs in the clause he understood the president to be asking him to drop the investigation catenate?
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Yes: "understand", "be", "ask", and "drop" are all catenative verbs, so this is a complex catenative construction.
- Yes: "understand", "be", "ask", and "drop" are all catenative verbs, so this is a complex catenative construction.
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Yes: "understand", "be", "ask", and "drop" are all catenative verbs, so this is a complex catenative construction.
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