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Anonymous Posted 14 years ago
Grammar

Noun+adj+infinitive

This sentence: "Love it or loathe it, Singapore is hard to ignore". Why its decent and correct form is not like 'Sigapore is hard to be ignored' or 'It's hard to ignore Sigapore' ? Cause apparently, Sigapore is an action receiver here.
  

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org/wiki/Ergative_verb

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