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Anonymous Posted 4 years ago
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Seize, by the way, was one of our recent vocabulary words for an enrichment reading we did in Advanced 1 that was accompanied by a movie recommendation to watch “The Dead Poet’s Society” and hand in a summary or written response. I love that movie.

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What is the subject of the clause hand in a summary or written response?

Is it recommendation?

  

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anonymous What is the subject of the clause hand in a summary or written response? That is an infinitive clause. "Hand" is the bare infinitive, parallel with "to watch".

  • anonymous What is the subject of the clause hand in a summary or written response?
  • That is an infinitive clause.
  • "Hand" is the bare infinitive, parallel with "to watch".
  • Both have "recommendation" as a subject.
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anonymousWhat is the subject of the clause hand in a summary or written response?

That is an infinitive clause. "Hand" is the bare infinitive, parallel with "to watch". Both have "recommendation" as a subject.

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anonymousWhat is the subject of the clause hand in a summary or written response?

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... an enrichment reading we did ...
a movie recommendation, (and the recommendation was [for us) to watch]“The Dead Poet’s Society” and [(for us to) hand in] a summary or written response
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... an enrichment reading we

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