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Anon f8r Posted 11 years ago
Grammar
Too good to miss
Should it be 'too good to miss' or 'too good to be missed'?
Do they have the same or different meaning?
Thank you.
Do they have the same or different meaning?
Thank you.
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It depends on what you mean by 'should'. From a strictly grammatical viewpoint, it should of course be too good to be missed because the sentence is passive in meaning. We don't know who is going to miss whatever he will miss.
- It depends on what you mean by 'should'.
- From a strictly grammatical viewpoint, it should of course be too good to be missed because the sentence is passive in meaning.
- We don't know who is going to miss whatever he will miss.
- In my native Finnish, for example, a passive structure is required in similar sentences.
- It is customary to use an active infinitive in English, though.
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It depends on what you mean by 'should'. From a strictly grammatical viewpoint, it should of course be too good to be missed because the sentence is passive in meaning. We don't know who is going to miss whatever he will miss. In my native Finnish, for example, a passive structure is required in similar sentences.
It is customary to use an active infinitive in English, thou
It is customary to use an active infinitive in English, thou
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HongkieDo they have the same or different meaning?Same meaning. The active version is more idiomatic.
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