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GCheng620 Posted 12 years ago
Grammar

Found something "TO BE + adj."/"adj."

Should the sentence phrased as "one finds something + adj." or "one finds something+TO BE+ adj."?

I say the latter all the time
  

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"? Generally, you may optionally omit the 'to be' and thus make it slightly less formal.

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  • Generally, you may optionally omit the 'to be' and thus make it slightly less formal.
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GCheng620Should the sentence phrased as "one finds something + adj." or "one finds something+TO BE+ adj."?
Generally, you may optionally omit the 'to be' and thus make it slightly less formal.
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Mister Micawber GCheng620Should the sentence phrased as "one finds something + adj." or "one finds something+TO BE+ adj."?Generally, you may optionally omit the 'to be' and thus make it slightly less formal.
ThANKS:)
But I can't but wonder if my notion is right- I see the expression "S + find + O" used with the pronoun "it" more frequently than all other

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