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Park sang joon Posted 11 years ago
Grammar
Pay somebody to do
Product placement and celebrity endorsements are not the same at all. Highly publicized celebrity contacts have made the public fully aware that athletes are paid large sums of money to sport a sponsor's clothing or footwear. In contrast the average moviegoer is not so knowledgeable about the fees paid to filmmakers using brand names.
[Source: Reading for Results Ninth Edition by Laraine Flemming]
I'd like to know when I rephrase the underlined clause as the active form, where I should dispose "large sums of money."
Thank you in advance for your help.
[Source: Reading for Results Ninth Edition by Laraine Flemming]
I'd like to know when I rephrase the underlined clause as the active form, where I should dispose "large sums of money."
Thank you in advance for your help.
Top answer
Sponsors pay athletes large sums of money to wear the sponsor's clothing or footwear.
- Sponsors pay athletes large sums of money to wear the sponsor's clothing or footwear.
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Sponsors pay athletes large sums of money to wear the sponsor's clothing or footwear.
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Thank you, AlpheccaStars, for your quick and very helpful answer.
Then I was wondering if "pay" can take two objects along with
Then I was wondering if "pay" can take two objects along with
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park sang joonThen I was wondering if "pay" can take two objects along with one objective complement.Yes.
My employer pays me (indirect object) an hourly salary (direct object) of $14.
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park sang joonI was wondering if "pay" can take two objects along with one objective complement.That infinitive is not an object complement.
park sang joonathletes are paid large sums of money to sport a sponsor's clothing or footwear.It's an infinitive of purpose. It answers the question of why athletes ar
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Thank you, AlpheccaStars, for your continuing answer.
Thank you, Mr. Jim, for your very valuable answer.
Thank you, Mr. Jim, for your very valuable answer.
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park sang joonI don't pay you to sit around all day doing nothing!The underlined part is an infinitive of purpose, just as in the other example.
I don't pay you (for the purpose of) (your) sitting around all day doing nothing!
I don't pay you (in order for you) to sit around all day doing nothing!
CJ
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Thank you, Mr.Jim, for your continuing support.
1. He paid for me to go to Korea.
2. He paid me to go to Korea.
I thought in #1, "for me to go" is an infinitive of purpose but in #2, "me" is an object and "to go" is an objective complement.
Then, I was wondering if "pay" never takes an objective complement.
1. He paid for me to go to Korea.
2. He paid me to go to Korea.
I thought in #1, "for me to go" is an infinitive of purpose but in #2, "me" is an object and "to go" is an objective complement.
Then, I was wondering if "pay" never takes an objective complement.
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park sang joon1. He paid for me to go to Korea.2. He paid me to go to Korea.I thought in #1, "for me to go" is an infinitive of purpose but in #2, "me" is an object and "to go" is an objective complement.You've gotten too advanced for me!
I assume they are both infinitives of purpose. The subject (expressed in the for-phrase) is explicit in 1 and im
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