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Prashaannt Posted 14 years ago
Grammar
Regarding Grammar
Could you please help me solving my queries regarding some grammatical issues?
I was hearing/reading a debate and I came across two sentences that I found confusing. The host of the debate uses these sentences below,
1. When you go to the airport, you understand they're going to be obligations
2. they're going to have to check you for security like they check all the rest.
Actually I read the script of the debate and saw these sentences there.
My question is, shouldn't it be past participle of the verb after 'to be' in the first sentence?
And what difference would have made it in the meaning if there was no 'have to' in the second sentence, the whole sentence would have transformed like this ' they're going to check you for security like they check all the rest.'
Any help would be appreciated in this regard. Thanks
I was hearing/reading a debate and I came across two sentences that I found confusing. The host of the debate uses these sentences below,
1. When you go to the airport, you understand they're going to be obligations
2. they're going to have to check you for security like they check all the rest.
Actually I read the script of the debate and saw these sentences there.
My question is, shouldn't it be past participle of the verb after 'to be' in the first sentence?
And what difference would have made it in the meaning if there was no 'have to' in the second sentence, the whole sentence would have transformed like this ' they're going to check you for security like they check all the rest.'
Any help would be appreciated in this regard. Thanks
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1. When you go to the airport, you understand (that) there're going to be obligation s. 2.
- 1.
- When you go to the airport, you understand (that) there're going to be obligation s.
- 2.
- They're going to have to check you for security like they check all the rest.
- - - No.
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1. When you go to the airport, you understand (that) there're going to be obligations.
2. They're going to have to check you for security like they check all the rest.
My question is, shouldn't it be past participle of the verb after 'to be' in the first sentence?-- No. 'Obligations' is either the predicate complement of existential 'there' (see my cor
2. They're going to have to check you for security like they check all the rest.
My question is, shouldn't it be past participle of the verb after 'to be' in the first sentence?-- No. 'Obligations' is either the predicate complement of existential 'there' (see my cor
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