Dave's ESL Cafe's Student Discussion Forums

[missdaredevil]

..sites in a landscape that are visited and revisited from different directions and thought *about* from different perspectives.

Can that be omitted?


Thanks

[CP]

No. There is a difference between "to think" and "to think about."

"I think whenever I have nothing else to do" tells you what I do when I am idle. "I think about everything else I have to do" tells you the subject of my thinking.

"I think, therefore I am" tells you what my thinking proves, that I really do exist. "I think about existing" tells you that being or existing is the subject of my thinking.

In your sentence, if you leave out "about," you change it from landscapes as the subject of your thought to -- well, I'm not sure! "Landscapes are thought from different perspectives" must mean that they are created by thought. Anyway, keep the "about."
_________________
You live a new life for every new language you speak. -Czech proverb

[missdaredevil]

Isn't thought there used as a noun?

Thanks

[CP]

No. There is a little ellipsis there. Let me add the missing words:

"...sites in a landscape that are visited and revisited from different directions and that are thought about from different perspectives."

Paraphrased:

"...people visit and revisit sites from different directions, and they think about them from different perspectives."
_________________
You live a new life for every new language you speak. -Czech proverb