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Stenka25 Posted 10 years ago
Grammar

Seems like grammatically wrong

What caused the Homo sapiens push out of Africa? Again, there are rival theories.

The passage above comes from 'A History of the World' by Andrew Marr.
In this sentence the underlined 'push' seems to be grammatically wrong.
Since the verb 'cause' is used as 'verb noun to infinitive', it should be used as 'to push' instead of 'push'.

Am I right?

Regards.
  

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I don't have the vaguest idea what 'verb to infinitive' is or means, but I agree with you: to push should be used after caused. CB

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I don't have the vaguest idea what 'verb to infinitive' is or means, but I agree with you: to push should be used after caused.

CB
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Stenka25What caused the **** sapiens push out of Africa?
Are you aware that 'push' is a noun here?

What caused the push (migration) out of Africa by **** sapiens?

CJ
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Thanks a lot as always, CJEmotion: smile
I questioned the right or wrong of the word 'push'.
But since the sentence was from a published b
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CalifJimAre you aware that 'push' is a noun here?
I certainly wasn't. Thanks, Jim. Since English has hardly any inflections, I am sometimes led astray. Besides, I now realize what the OP's 'verb to infinitive' means. When I first saw it, I thought it had something to do with a verb becoming an infinitive, i.e. I thought that the 'to' was a preposition.
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Stenka25What caused the **** sapiens push out of Africa?
The clue is the definite article before **** sapiens. If Home sapiens were to be followed by a verb (What caused **** Sapiens to push out of Africa?) there would be no article.
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Thanks a lot as always, fivejedjon.
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