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Asked on March 3, 2021 in Grammar.
Your adjective needs to be changed. This is not a short essay or anything. Axiomats with adjectives or verbs are substituted for infinitives rather than words with no adjectival value. Does that really mean that sentence is not written as follows? Why do we need to use to infinitive in the following adjectives? In fact normally after adjectives come the adjectives they are describing: black cat; black muck.
If you use an adjective as the predicate of a sentence, such as I am mad, then you can often (usually optionally) add a prepositional phrase or an infinitive clause or a full clause linked by that, depending on the adjective.
I
- am mad about games and the environment. Why do I do it?
- When did you get mad at me?
- Is it true I killed your cat? Is it not true?
- She was all hungry for meat. It is unusual to have two cats
- (sometimes two, are extremely active, and so hungry)
- It’s super rare for my granddaughter to eat cats.
- My daughter ate cats mostly. I am not sure she likes cats.
- It was typical for her to eat cats. Most dogs eat dogs after 11 and her cat is one of them. It was
- nice of Bob to buy her a new cat. (Different meaning.) It was nice of Bob to buy her seven, twelve, 12-month old litter.
- *Bob was kind enough to buy her a new cat.
- I am sick of hearing about cats. What does this mean for humans?
- I am fond of dogs always, myself.
- Son is hard of hearing. Why? Now an idiomatic expression. Is it always expected how normal a person’s dialect was
- at some point? Other examples may be. What is
- over a thousand things? Should students be overwhelmed by their
- unfamiliarity? What are some past participles? What are some hidden rules for adjectives to have which type of complement in a sentence?
Objective adjectives like tall, shiny, round, furry don’t typically allow complements. I know some people that tack on peripheral prepositional phrases just fine. I think you look gorgeous in that dress, but I’m depressed. I’m not a sleeper. What are some examples of adjectives in an English dictionary?
Also note that “It-Cleft constructions”, like examples 5,7,8,9 play by different rules. Let’s begin by listing: Is it nice to meet you is a cleft construction?
I just posted a question about gerund and to infinitive, so this question is not the most interchangeable. I had cleft after two things when I saw you again. Then it was nice. it was nice to see you again. I think we wouldn’t say It was nice to talk to you just because it sounds a bit awkward to say to twice.
- I think it’s strange to sit here.
- How can I ask for a cab number? How strange is that I’m not here anymore.
- What do you feel like standing here?
- *I feel weird to stand right here.
- I am happy to help. What do
- you think of the recent UK upcoming Global Warming Summit?
- What is real and makes you angry? If you haven’t already, what are some good things you’ve done?
- What is a ”’refining” card? At times, it makes me angry to think about the words “I love you” and “I’m angry” and be “embry”
I don’t know and shouldn’t tell anyone. Language doesn’t really have rules, it has tendencies and often very finicky and apparently arbitrary.
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