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Anonymous Posted 10 years ago
Vocabulary
Voted to sweep
"The angry, anti-establishment, nation-first tide that voted to sweep the UK out of the EU and Trump into the White House – in what the billionaire property developer himself called a “Brexit plus, plus, plus” – is rising steadily across the continent." (The Guardian.)
Is "voted to sweep" a catenative construction without implied (intervening) prepositional phrase in order in the above?
Is "voted to sweep" a catenative construction without implied (intervening) prepositional phrase in order in the above?
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If you are asking whether it means "voted in order to sweep", then no (and I'm not sure that "X in order to Y" should be called a catenative construction anyway).
- If you are asking whether it means "voted in order to sweep", then no (and I'm not sure that "X in order to Y" should be called a catenative construction anyway).
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If you are asking whether it means "voted in order to sweep", then no (and I'm not sure that "X in order to Y" should be called a catenative construction anyway).
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Thank you, GPY, for the replay.
Indeed, "in order [for the tide] to sweep" doesn't seem to be logically right in that context.
Indeed, "in order [for the tide] to sweep" doesn't seem to be logically right in that context.
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