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Navitasan Posted 11 years ago
Grammar
The man to vote for
Are these sentences correct:
1) The man to vote for was taken ill and cancelled his candidacy.
2) The man to vote for cancelled his candidacy.
3) They abducted the man to choose for the job.
4) They abducted the man to be chosen for the job.
5) The man to choose for the job was abducted.
6) The man to be chosen for the job was abducted.
(Meaning of 3-6: They abducted the man whom we had to choose for the job.)
Gratefully,
Navi.
1) The man to vote for was taken ill and cancelled his candidacy.
2) The man to vote for cancelled his candidacy.
3) They abducted the man to choose for the job.
4) They abducted the man to be chosen for the job.
5) The man to choose for the job was abducted.
6) The man to be chosen for the job was abducted.
(Meaning of 3-6: They abducted the man whom we had to choose for the job.)
Gratefully,
Navi.
Top answer
By “the man to choose”, do you mean the preferred candidate? 1) The man we were going to vote for was taken ill and cancelled his candidacy. 2) The man we support cancelled his candidacy.
- By “the man to choose”, do you mean the preferred candidate?
- 1) The man we were going to vote for was taken ill and cancelled his candidacy.
- 2) The man we support cancelled his candidacy.
- (we had chosen) 3) They abducted the preferred choice for the job.
- 4) They abducted the man who would have been chosen for the job.
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By “the man to choose”, do you mean the preferred candidate?
1) The man we were going to vote for was taken ill and cancelled his candidacy.
2) The man we support cancelled his candidacy. (we had chosen)
3) They abducted the preferred choice for the job.
4) They abducted the man who would have been chosen for the job.
5) The man we had chose
1) The man we were going to vote for was taken ill and cancelled his candidacy.
2) The man we support cancelled his candidacy. (we had chosen)
3) They abducted the preferred choice for the job.
4) They abducted the man who would have been chosen for the job.
5) The man we had chose
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Thank you very much Wilpeter.
Well, I though 'we' might just be a group of voters, or maybe a party. There is an election and from the speaker's point of view there is a man to vote for. In the second case, 'we' might be the management. Again the speaker believes that he was the man for the job,
The idea was to see if one could postmodify a noun with an infinitive in those gramma
Well, I though 'we' might just be a group of voters, or maybe a party. There is an election and from the speaker's point of view there is a man to vote for. In the second case, 'we' might be the management. Again the speaker believes that he was the man for the job,
The idea was to see if one could postmodify a noun with an infinitive in those gramma
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1) The man to vote for was taken ill and cancelled his candidacy.
Ambiguity: The man to vote for (in my opinion) was taken ill and (that) cancelled his candidacy.
(Meaning, when my choice for the vote became ill, he was removed from the list of candidates.)
(Alternate meaning, he cancelled his candidacy because he felt ill.)
Same with the abduction: We abducted (from somewh
Ambiguity: The man to vote for (in my opinion) was taken ill and (that) cancelled his candidacy.
(Meaning, when my choice for the vote became ill, he was removed from the list of candidates.)
(Alternate meaning, he cancelled his candidacy because he felt ill.)
Same with the abduction: We abducted (from somewh
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