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Tkacka15 Posted 11 years ago
Vocabulary
Seems to be to do
"“Chinese investment funds have very little experience or knowledge about Russia and it’s a hard sell.But the strategy seems to be to do the big state deals first and assume smaller ones will follow. Slowly, real things are happening.”" (The Guardian.)
Is the verb "to do" in the catenative order with the verb phrase "seems to be" in the above context?
Is the verb "to do" in the catenative order with the verb phrase "seems to be" in the above context?
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" behaves like a noun and is the complement of "be". To put it another way, you could say "to do the big state deals first seems to be the strategy" (actually this word order would not be massively usual, but it illustrates the structure).
- " behaves like a noun and is the complement of "be".
- To put it another way, you could say "to do the big state deals first seems to be the strategy" (actually this word order would not be massively usual, but it illustrates the structure).
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The phrase "to do the big state deals first ..." behaves like a noun and is the complement of "be". To put it another way, you could say "to do the big state deals first seems to be the strategy" (actually this word order would not be massively usual, but it illustrates the structure).
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