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Stenka25 Posted 11 years ago
Grammar

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Ellipsis

The passage below is from ‘the Blank Slate’ by Steven Pinker.

http://evolbiol.ru/blankslate/blankslate.htm

Finally, a mass of evidence from cognitive neuroscience shows that grammatical combination (including regular verbs) and lexical lookup (including irregular verbs) are handled by different systems in the brain rather than by a single associative network.

It's not that neural networks are incapable of handling the meanings of sentences or the task of grammatical conjugation. (They had better not be, since the very idea that thinking is a form of neural computation requires that some kind of neural network duplicate whatever the mind can do.) The problem lies in the credo that one can do everything with a generic model as long as it is sufficiently trained.

In this passage, I want to fill out the phrase after BE after the underlined part so that the meaning of the sentence becomes evident.

I have my answer, capable of handling after underlined BE, but I want to make sure.
(Am I right?)

Regards.
  

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They had better not be in capable of handling ...

  • They had better not be in capable of handling ...
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They had better not be incapable of handling ...
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Think of "They had better not be" as "I hope/expect they are not."
GPY's answer is correct.
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Thanks a lot, GPY.
Thanks a lot, teechr.

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