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Peymands Posted 13 years ago
Grammar

Where is verb?

What's the structure of this clause: "nobody to bother me, he thought."
Where is the verb of firs phrase?
  

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The verb is the to -infinitive "to bother", which in your example means "disturb". So you could rephrase it as "nobody to disturb me, he thought". BillJ

— BillJ

  • The verb is the to -infinitive "to bother", which in your example means "disturb".
  • So you could rephrase it as "nobody to disturb me, he thought".
  • BillJ
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The verb is the to-infinitive "to bother", which in your example means "disturb". So you could rephrase it as "nobody to disturb me, he thought".

BillJ
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Hi,

A fuller version of the sentence would be
eg "There is nobody to bother me", he thought.

Clive
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