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Vocabulary
What it set out to do
“At every level this report is a failure,” security researcher Robert M. Lee told The Daily Beast about the DHS/FBI document. “It didn’t do what it set out to do, and it didn’t provide useful data. They’re handing out bad information to the industry when good information exists.” (The Daily Beast.)
What is the meaning of what it set out to do in the paragraph above? Is "set out to do" catenative and in the past simple here?
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what it set out to do = past tense. It means: what its original purpose was intended to do
- what it set out to do = past tense.
- It means: what its original purpose was intended to do
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what it set out to do = past tense. It means: what its original purpose was intended to do
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