Want + infinitive

'To be' may be omitted.

Hello
Is this correct if someone says: "She wanted her name kept secret"?
I saw it in a most famous grammar book. I ask this question due to
the fact that after "want", in formal English, we should use
an infinitive verb, so I think in this sentence we should use "to be kept" instead of
"kept". Am I right? or is there any rule based on it we could omit "to be" from
a passi

Hi msmsdr,

Welcome to EF!
I've joined your post to the other thread you posted earlier anonymously.

See MM's answer above your post.

Thanks a lot MM.
Could you please tell me why we can omit ‘to be'?

Could you please tell me why we can omit ‘to be'?

Well, 'want' here is one of a group of verbs (want, have, get, need, like, see, hear, watch, find, leave, etc) that take the form V + O + -ed participle clause): I want my car washed carefully; I found myself embarrassed by the incident. Most (all?) of these would be nonfinite clauses lacking 'to be'.

Thank you very much.
that was helpful.