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Tkacka15 Posted 11 years ago
Grammar

Parsing

Candy-stripe house redesign makes Kensington neighbours see red. (The article headline.)

Is "makes" a transitive verb and "Kensington neighbours see red" its object (in syntactic terms) in the above sentence?
  

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do' is one of the coercive verb forms, but your analysis seems quite accurate to me.

  • do' is one of the coercive verb forms, but your analysis seems quite accurate to me.
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'To make...do' is one of the coercive verb forms, but your analysis seems quite accurate to me.
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Mister Micawber'To make...do' is one of the coercive verb forms, but your analysis seems quite accurate to me.
Thank you for your reply.

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