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Ashay2018 Posted 7 years ago
Grammar

"To be" form after intransitive phrasal verb

Hello,

I learnt that intransitive verb can't be followed by infintive phrase. However following example has "to be" form after intransitive phrasal verb, grows up.

Every kitten grows up to be a cat.

Can you please clear my doubt ?

Thanks

  

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ashay2018 Every kitten grows up to be a cat. That is a good, grammatical sentence. There are many uses of the to-infinitive to show results, purpose or to complement an adjective or noun.

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  • That is a good, grammatical sentence.
  • There are many uses of the to-infinitive to show results, purpose or to complement an adjective or noun.
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ashay2018Every kitten grows up to be a cat.

That is a good, grammatical sentence.

There are many uses of the to-infinitive to show results, purpose or to complement an adjective or noun. This page gives many examples:

https://learnengli

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ashay2018grows up to be

Think of this as an idiom that means something like "becomes" or "turns into".

See the link below for many examples.

https://fraze.it/n_search.jsp?q=%22grows+up+to+be%22&l=0

There is also "turns out to be".

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