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Anonymous Posted 12 years ago
Vocabulary

Want

Hi.

"They should actively want there to be a pro-Russian candidate in the presidential election." [From The Guardian.]

Is "there" an object of the verb "want" in the pattern verb + object + to-infinitive or is there to be a pro-Russian candidate in the presidential election a content (noun) clause doing the job of the object of the verb want ?

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" Anonymous or is there to be a pro-Russian candidate in the presidential election a content (noun) clause doing the job of the object of the verb want ? I vote for this parsing.

— Avangi

  • " Anonymous or is there to be a pro-Russian candidate in the presidential election a content (noun) clause doing the job of the object of the verb want ?
  • I vote for this parsing.
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Anonymous"They should actively want there to be a pro-Russian candidate in the presidential election."
Anonymousor is there to be a pro-Russian candidate in the presidential election a content (noun) clause doing the job of the object of the verb want ?
I vote for this pa
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A good question. Thank you.
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AvangiI vote for this parsing.
Thank you, Avangi, for your reply. It seems that the link this doesn't work.
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Anonymous It seems that the link this doesn't work.
Woops! That's not a link. Sorry.
The original post suggested two different approaches to the grammar of the quoted passage.

My reply was meant to favor the second one, beginning with "or."


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