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Tinanam0102 Posted 12 years ago
Grammar

eliminated as

Hi teachers,

He is eliminating as mentally unstable, but not a killer.

Usually the sentence would write: He was eliminated as a prime suspect. So 'is eliminating as' seems different in structure. What does this sentence mean?

Thanks
TN
  

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" to be provided by the surrounding context. This is not totally impossible, but "eliminate" is almost always transitive, and this sentence tends to look wrong. "He was eliminated" is passive, meaning that someone eliminated him.

— GPY

  • " to be provided by the surrounding context.
  • This is not totally impossible, but "eliminate" is almost always transitive, and this sentence tends to look wrong.
  • "He was eliminated" is passive, meaning that someone eliminated him.
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"He is eliminating as mentally unstable, but not a killer" requires "eliminate" to be intransitive, and the answer to the question "Who is he eliminating?" to be provided by the surrounding context. This is not totally impossible, but "eliminate" is almost always transitive, and this sentence tends to look wrong.

"He was eliminated" is passive, meaning that someone eliminated him.
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Hi GPY,

'He was eliminated as mentally unstable, but not a killer' would mean him being mentally unstable was not eliminated, that is to say, he was not mentally unstable?

Thanks
TN
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tinanam0102'He was eliminated as mentally unstable, but not a killer' would mean him being mentally unstable was not eliminated, that is to say, he was not mentally unstable?
The way I understood it, without knowing anything about the context, is that he was mentally unstable, but he was not a killer. Because he was not a killer (even though mentally un
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