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Anonymous Posted 12 years ago
Grammar

The man

Hi.

"... the man art traditionalists love to hate" [From The Guardian.]

Is "the man" an object of the verb "love" or "to hate"?

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Think about it. Do traditionalists love the man or hate him?

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Think about it. Do traditionalists love the man or hate him?
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fivejedjonThink about it. Do traditionalist love the man or hate him?
Yes, they hate him. So, from your prompting I presume that the wording "...art traditionalists love the man to hate" is ungrammatical in such a context.
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AnonymousI presume that the wording "...art traditionalists love the man to hate" is ungrammatical
It certainly does not fit the original text—or have you just mistyped it? Look at the original this way:

the man [who] art traditionalists love to hate = They enjoy hating him.
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AnonymousIs "the man" an object of the verb "love" or "to hate"?
It’s not an object of anything. The covert relativized element (indicated by ‘__’ below) in the relative clause is object of hate:

the man (that) art traditionalists love to hate __ (They love to hate him).

To hate __ is complement of love.
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Aspara Gus AnonymousIs "the man" an object of the verb "love" or "to hate"?It’s not an object of anything. The covert relativized element (indicated by ‘__’ below) in the relative clause is object of hate:the man (that) art traditionalists love to hate _ (They love to hate him).To hate _ is complement of love.
Thank you all for your useful replies, espe
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AG is right. The direct object of the verb 'hate' is the covert 'that'. The fact that 'man' is the antecedent tells us that these people hate the man, but the word 'man' is not the direct object of the verb 'hate'.
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AnonymousI'm not sure what the implied (that) is.
I see it as a subordinator.
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AnonymousIf the answer is the latter, then the man is, in my opinion at least, the object of to hate.
It’s the relativized element (overt or covert) that assumes the function of object. The function of the antecedent man is head of t
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Thank you, AG, for the link.
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