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Dcomest Posted 21 years ago
Grammar

The answers are ours to find.

Could you analyze these sentences grammartically?
I'm a bit confused, especially a).

a) The answers are ours to find.
b) These are the answers for us to find.

What's the grammartical structure of a) and is b) grammartically correct?
a) sounds a little bit archaic to me. What do you say?

Thanks in adavnce.
  

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0 Just my opinion: I think a) is very strange, and I don't know if it belongs to a grammatical pattern. b) is a little bit poetic. But let's wait for a teacher.

— Klavier

  • 0 Just my opinion: I think a) is very strange, and I don't know if it belongs to a grammatical pattern.
  • b) is a little bit poetic.
  • But let's wait for a teacher.
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0 Just my opinion: I think a) is very strange, and I don't know if it belongs to a grammatical pattern. b) is a little bit poetic. But let's wait for a teacher. 0-
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0 I don't know whether it is archaic or not, but I think [a] is grammatical. 02br
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00The question is yours to answer 02br
00= The question is yours (=your question) that is (for you) to answer. 02br
00= The question is for you to answer. 02br
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00(EX-1) My life is mine to live, not yours. 02br
00(EX-2) Whatever
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0 Hi, 02br
00Years ago, there was a very popular song that included the lines 02br
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00'the future's not ours to see, 02br
00que sera, sera, 02br
00what will be, will be' 02br
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00(Sung by Doris Day.) 02br
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00Clive 0-
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