Imagine someone to be/ ımagine someone being/ imagine someone is
This websites says: "imagine can be followed by either (a) a gerund or (b) a noun phrase or pronoun + to-infinitive but with different meanings". And gives examples:
a- Imagine living at 2,000 metres above sea level! (Imagine what it would be like to live at 2,000 metres above sea level.)
b- I imagined him to be much taller. (I expected that he would be much taller.)
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Is this difference in meaning always implied? Don't these examples below convey almost the same thing:
1- Imagine that you are lying on a beach. (https://www.macmillandictionary.com/dictionary/british/imagine)
2- Imagine yourself lying on a beach.
3- Imagine yourself to be lying on a beach.
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4- I think they imagine the company to be bigger than it is. (https://www.macmillandictionary.com/dictionary/british/imagine)
5- I think they imagine the company is bigger than it is.
6- I think they imagine the company being bigger than it is. (Probably this sentence is not the appropriate one.)
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Some examples: a. Imagine living at 2000m above sea level. = Imagine what it would be like to live at 2000m above sea level.
- Some examples: a.
- Imagine living at 2000m above sea level.
- = Imagine what it would be like to live at 2000m above sea level.
- ) Imagine you are living 2000m above sea level = Imagine that you are actually living in a house 2000m above sea level.
- Imagine yourself to be living 2000m above sea level.
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Some examples:
a. Imagine living at 2000m above sea level. = Imagine what it would be like to live at 2000m above sea level. (Note: this is the only example that has a different meaning from the two following examples.)
Imagine you are living 2000m above sea level = Imagine that you are actually living in a house 2000m above sea level.
Imagine yourself to be liv
0mango pen 189Don't these examples below convey almost the same thing
That doesn't matter. The web page is specifically about
Verbs followed by the TO-infinitive or gerund with a difference in meaning,
just as it says at the top of the page.
So obviously they are not going to discuss sentences like
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