The Deletion of the Preposition in the Surface Structure

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  • Deletion of the Preposition in the Surface Structure

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In English there are a lot of sentences with an intransitive verb which seems to work as a transitive verb with a direct object of a finite clause or to be modified by an adverbial finite clause and those sentences with an adjective which appears to be modified by an adverbial finite clause; however, those clauses are actually nominal finite clauses and the verbs are intransitive though a lot of dictionaries treat them as transitive. This confusion comes out because we only look at the surface structure. If we take the deep structure into consideration, this matter is solved. The present paper tries to explain those sentences more consistently by using the deep structure.

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