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Chan-Seung Lee
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 Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2007 5:12 am Post subject: right? |
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| Fines are supposed to act as a deterrent to other would-be offenders and not be seen as an income generating exercise. |
I think that the bold part, 'not be seen' is not correct and so it shoud be changed to 'not supposed to be seen'.
But I'm not sure. If 'not be seen' is correct, please let me know why.
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Lorikeet
Joined: 08 Oct 2005
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Location: San Francisco
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| Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2007 8:26 am Post subject: Re: right? |
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| Chan-Seung Lee wrote: |
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| Fines are supposed to act as a deterrent to other would-be offenders and not be seen as an income generating exercise. |
I think that the bold part, 'not be seen' is not correct and so it shoud be changed to 'not supposed to be seen'.
But I'm not sure. If 'not be seen' is correct, please let me know why.
Thanks. |
I think the sentence is okay as it is. We often delete things that are repeated in two parts of the sentence connected with "and."
"I'm going to go to the store and go to the restaurant." = "I'm going to go to the store and the restaurant."
"Fines are supposed to act as a deterrent to other would-be offenders and are not supposed to be seen as an income generating exercise." = "Fines are supposed to act as a deterrent to other would-be offenders and not be seen as an income generating exercise." |
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