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Healer Posted 5 years ago
Grammar

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I understand the transitive verb after ‘had’ or ‘have’ always in infinitive form. I’m not too sure about intransitive verb though.

Could someone check if the following grammatically correct and mean the same thing? Thanks!

We had eight persons DIED yesterday.

We had eight persons dead yesterday.

We had eight persons who died yesterday.

  

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healer We had eight persons DIED yesterday. " healer We had eight persons dead yesterday. Possible, but slightly different in meaning.

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  • healer We had eight persons DIED yesterday.
  • " healer We had eight persons dead yesterday.
  • Possible, but slightly different in meaning.
  • healer We had eight persons who died yesterday.
  • Also possible, but open to slightly different interpretations.
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healerWe had eight persons DIED yesterday.

No, it should be "We had eight persons die yesterday."

healerWe had eight persons dead yesterday.

Possible, but slightly different in meaning.

healerWe had eight persons who died yesterday.

Also possible, but open to slight

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healerI understand the transitive verb after ‘had’ or ‘have’ always in infinitive form. I’m not too sure about intransitive verb though.

With causative "have" the transitivity of the following verb doesn't matter.

The doctor had the patient rest for several hours. (intransitive rest)
The doctor had the patient bend his knee sever

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