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Cho7712 Posted 8 years ago
Grammar

Find bare infinitive

I found some Korean bloggers posting such English grammar point.

'When used as a perception verb, the verb find can take the bare infinitive. (ex. They found the business pay.).'

Is it correct information?

  

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They found the business pay. No: "find" takes a to -infinitival: "They found the business to pay". But it is ambiguous.

— BillJ

  • They found the business pay.
  • No: "find" takes a to -infinitival: "They found the business to pay".
  • But it is ambiguous.
  • It could mean they found that the business was profitable, or they found the business to pay money to.
  • Context would normally disambiguate.
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They found the business pay.

No: "find" takes a to-infinitival: "They found the business to pay".

But it is ambiguous. It could mea

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