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Sentential Subject with `to' complement: Ts0Vtonx1
- Description:
- The verbs that select this tree family are fall, occur and leak. The sentential subject can be indicative
(complementizer required) or infinitive (complementizer optional).
- Examples:
- fall, occur, leak
to wash the car fell to the children .
that he should leave occurred to the party crasher .
whether the princess divorced the prince leaked to the press .
- Declarative tree:
- See Figure 6.32.
- {Sentential Subject Tree with `to' complement: $\alpha$s0Vtonx1
- Other available trees:
- wh-moved subject,
adjunct (gap-less) relative clause with comp/with PP pied-piping.
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