Is the verb use connected to the phrase "to identify and use"
"Culpeper’s aim was to supply the information that would allow ordinary people to identify medicinal plants they could find growing in fields and bushes near their homes and use them to make home remedies that would heal them."
(source: Plants: Food, Medicine, and the Green Earth By Michael Allaby)
Is the verb "use" connected to the phrase "to identify and use" OR to the phrase "could find and use"?
Could you help me clarify it? Thank you always.
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There is only one parsing that works with your sentence. Culpeper’s aim was to supply the information that would allow ordinary people to [ identify medicinal plants they could find growing in fields and bushes near their homes] and [ (to) use them to make home remedies that would heal them]. To force the other parsing requires a change in the sentence.
- There is only one parsing that works with your sentence.
- Culpeper’s aim was to supply the information that would allow ordinary people to [ identify medicinal plants they could find growing in fields and bushes near their homes] and [ (to) use them to make home remedies that would heal them].
- To force the other parsing requires a change in the sentence.
- "
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There is only one parsing that works with your sentence.
Culpeper’s aim was to supply the information that would allow ordinary people to [ identify medicinal plants they could find growing in fields and bushes near their homes] and [ (to) use them to make home remedies that would heal them].
To force the other parsing requires a change in the sentence.
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