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Anonymous Posted 15 years ago
Grammar

Verb usage "eludes"

Hello,

I have a queryrelated to an essay marking issue:

1) "...Plath eludes us to the meaning of the poem..."

I recognise a better way of putting this would be to nominalise (Plath's meaning is elusive in the poem) but is the first sentence techically incorrect and why?
  

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" Whatever the sentence is supposed to mean, it's incorrect. CB

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Anonymous1) "...Plath eludes us to the meaning of the poem..."
Whatever the sentence is supposed to mean, it's incorrect.

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Hi,
I have a queryrelated to an essay marking issue:

1) "...Plath eludes us to the meaning of the poem..."

I recognise a better way of putting this would be to nominalise (Plath's meaning is elusive in the poem) but is the first sentence techically incorrect and why?

Incorrect.

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Thanks, Clive for putting that so succinctly Emotion: smile

'Plath's meaning eludes us' or nominalised: 'Plath's meaning is elusive.'
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