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"for" is a complementizer. It signals the subject of the non-finite clause. "to" goes with "for". As infinitive marker it signals the predicate of the non-finite clause. The "for ... to ..." pattern is common after "it is/was/... (not)" + adjective. It is important for you to study...

'My point is that the user is doing any action here ' Did you mean to write 'not doing'? In which case, the passive voice is appropriate semantically. But if the rule is 'Never use passive voice in a technical document', another word or phrase is necessary, perhaps forcing a construction less...

Dear MrPedantic, yulysess, and Roro, We have opened several issues in this thread. I would like to go over some of them and state what my thinking is about them now that we have discussed them. MrPedantic's original post asked why very and much cannot be used equally,...

hi agent c we are discussing the translations of sentences and some types of examples in montague grammer. this is my "formal semantics" lesson in school. i don't know well this issue but Roro helped me much. so i increase my knowledge a bit with discussing. this is the first handout of the...

Hello muratsekerci ! Question 3: Suppose the following rules were added to the syntax of L1E: VP -> Vs S Vs -> believes-that, hopes-that What difficulty arises in attempting to formulate the semantic rule for Vs + S constructions? I think there could be various technical problems. And...

Hello muratsekerci, and welcome to EnglishForum. Question 1: Which of the following designate a legitimate type according to the type system which our language Ltype rests on? I'm not sure what means here, because these logical types are a bit unusual. But as far as I know: a. , , t>>...

Dear Roro, As you said in a previous post, this is a "huge question." I think the answer will come from many fields: linguistics, philosophy, psychology, physiology, neuro-science.... Our language and our thinking are inherently and necessarily vague. If I ask for a hammer, I will be happy...

I wonder why you feel that "leave" can't be a linking verb, especially if you accept that "emerge" can be a linking verb. Semantically, they both concern motion out, though as it turns out, that may be irrelevant. I suppose, in a way, we could define a linking verb as any verb which can occur...

??I want that you clean up your room this instant! It would not surprise me to learn that it was possible in some NAmE Englishes. Some Romance language speaking immigrants may speak it. Quote from Everything2 : The Subjunctive Mood of English After verbs which formerly used the...

Hi There! I have to sort out simple and multiple sentences from the text. I found it rather difficult mainly because of the terminology. Are these non-finite structures clauses or constructions? On these pages, and by several authors (Quirk) they are termed clauses. On the other hand,...