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Anonymous Posted 10 years ago
Grammar

Do we usually omit 'as' after 'leave' or 'come'?

I have come across a sentence which goes like this:And more than that, Taiwan has some of the world’s warmest people, affable to a fault and so filled with rénqíng wèi (which, roughly translated, means ‘personal affection’) that few who come to Taiwan a stranger leave that way.
Is an 'as' leaved out when the complete sentence should be 'few who come to Taiwan as a stranger'? Do we usually omit 'as' after 'leave' or 'come'? Thanks in advance.
  

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The quoted text is correct. Putting "as" in between "Taiwan" and "a" would still be grammatical, but the sentence would then lose its verve and sound heavy-handed and pedantic. The "as" is left out for effect, as it gives the sentence more impact.

— Anonymous

  • The quoted text is correct.
  • Putting "as" in between "Taiwan" and "a" would still be grammatical, but the sentence would then lose its verve and sound heavy-handed and pedantic.
  • The "as" is left out for effect, as it gives the sentence more impact.
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The quoted text is correct. Putting "as" in between "Taiwan" and "a" would still be grammatical, but the sentence would then lose its verve and sound heavy-handed and pedantic. The "as" is left out for effect, as it gives the sentence more impact.

You see this kind of construction, for example, in the following, all of which are correct:

"I entered college a naive young man and
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Many thanks, I get it.
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Anonymousfew who come to Taiwan a stranger
If you're interested in grammatical labels, this is called a subject-oriented secondary predicate.

Primary predicate: They come to Taiwan.
Secondary predicate: Each of them is a stranger.

Such predicates combine the characteristics of adjectives and adverbs.

CJ
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