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Anonymous Posted 12 years ago
Grammar

someone is easy to do something?

A person with low immunity is easy to be infected or get a disease.

An animate subject (human) cannot be placed in subject position
when it comes to the type of adjective like difficult, hard, easy and so forth.

Is the sentence correct or accepted? I would have made it this:
It's easy for a person with low immunity to be infected or get a disease.
  

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Anonymous A person with low immunity is easy to be infected or get a disease. No. A person with low immunity is easily infected with a disease .

— Mister Micawber

  • Anonymous A person with low immunity is easy to be infected or get a disease.
  • No.
  • A person with low immunity is easily infected with a disease .
  • Anonymous An animate subject (human) cannot be placed in subject positionwhen it comes to the type of adjective like difficult, hard, easy and so forth.
  • Sure it can: A woman is hard to satisfy .
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AnonymousA person with low immunity is easy to be infected or get a disease.
No.

A person with low immunity is easily infected with a disease.
AnonymousAn animate subject (human) cannot be placed in subject positionwhen it comes to the type of adjective like difficult, hard, easy and so forth.
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I should have added this:
I wanted to know if the subject of an infitive clause can be moved to the subject position of the main clause.

So far I've understood that it can't be, the reason isn't clear, though.
Did you know about the reason?
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AnonymousI wanted to know if the subject of an infitive clause can be moved to the subject position of the main clause.
Please give us an example.
AnonymousDid you know about the reason?
Maybe, if I see it. My first guess is that the subjects are not necessarily the same: I saw him do it.
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