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Hello native English speakers.
However, he said no one should be forced to take in second hand smoke --- which was why the group advocated segregated areas for those who did not what to be exposed. (original)
Question:
Is this sentence grammatically correct?
Depending on my intuition of the prepositional phrase “for those who did not what to be exposed” , which is on the last part of the original, and , by the way, on my intuition of grammar, I have been puzzling about why the “ what to be exposed” being after the “did not” because, by grammar,there should be a bare infinitive after the “did not ” , why on earth should there be a noun phrase “what to be exposed” after it?
I want to boldly guess about the nub so that the original might be grammatical :
for those who did not what to be exposed = for those who did not be forced (or did not want ) to take in second hand smoke , which is what to be exposed.
and only in this way can I slightly have a good feeling to understand the original
I am very eager to get help ---liberating me from my predicament on understanding such a predicamental noun phrase.
28 dic 2025 09:47
Risposte · 3
'What' is a typo. It should be 'want'. For those who did not want to be exposed ...
1 gen 2026 18:06
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Cinese (mandarino), Inglese
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Inglese
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