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Fire1 Posted 7 years ago
Grammar

Question on "to be"

  1. Students declare the best time of year during the summer.

  2. The tour guides announced the most dangerous place to swim along the southern shore.

  3. The reviewer named the most organized classrooms in the English building.

  4. The Provost named the cleanest restrooms in the education building.

  5. Students declare the best time of year to be during the summer.

  6. The tour guides announced the most dangerous place to swim to be along the southern shore.

  7. The reviewer named the most organized classrooms to be in the English building.

  8. The Provost named the cleanest restrooms to be in the education building.

Can we regard 1,2,3,4 as the same things as 5,6,7,8 in meaning?

I think yes or no.

  

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fire1 Can we regard 1,2,3,4 as the same things as 5,6,7,8 in meaning? No. Just to take one example: 2.

— GPY

  • fire1 Can we regard 1,2,3,4 as the same things as 5,6,7,8 in meaning?
  • No.
  • Just to take one example: 2.
  • The tour guides announced the most dangerous place to swim along the southern shore.
  • 5.
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fire1Can we regard 1,2,3,4 as the same things as 5,6,7,8 in meaning?

No. Just to take one example:

2. The tour guides announced the most dangerous place to swim along the southern shore.
5. The tour guides announced the most dangerous place to swim to be along the southern shore.

(2) means that, of all the places along the southern sh

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