What leave meant
"In truth Chequers was a tactical way-station to the inevitable: a customs union. It was not ideal, but it was progress, and anything else is fantasy. Greening complains May’s union would leave Britain with “no say on shaping” EU trade rules. But that is what leave meant."
(The Guardian.)
Is "leave" a noun or a verb in But that is what leave meant?
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It's a verb, but it is a mention of the verb rather than a use. Possibly it would be better in quotation marks.
- It's a verb, but it is a mention of the verb rather than a use.
- Possibly it would be better in quotation marks.
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It's a verb, but it is a mention of the verb rather than a use. Possibly it would be better in quotation marks.
0Slightly surprised the Guardian didn't give leave a capital letter. "Leave" has become (when referring to the UK's process of withdrawing from the EU) a "thing" in the definition of a noun (a person, place or thing).
To give it a capital letter here may not be strictly grammatically correct, but newspapers often break grammar rules for the sake of what the sub-editors see as clarity and pu
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