It is very complicated to understand
Hello,
I have a little inquiry, regarding a curious sentence from a local textbook, which looks like this:
(1) It was very complicated to understand.
For your information, the pronoun it here refers to a Matisse. And I assume the intended meaning was, 'the painting was so complex that it was hard to understand.
My question is, is the adjective complicated one of those that license such movement of an NP from the position of the direct object of a subordinate clause to that of the subject of the matrix clasue?
Thank you in advance for your insightful answers.
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