Hi! For English learners, we tend to emphasize on "natural English", but how would you feel if we wrote sentences as below: "The book is difficult to be read" ("be" is unnecessary) "We are not to be blamed" ("be" is unnecessary, so "to blame") This is about the "infinitive verb" grammar. I think I will add "be" in there without hesitation, and everyone would still know what I meant, but is this (adding unnecessary “constituent") "unnatural" "wrong" or "uneducational".

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I have a question, it's from the tv show " Seinfeld" the question is regarding the expression used " she's sticking it to me" and then later " Elain used the expression " are you sticking it to me" what does this expression mean. Here's the context from YouTube, related to the expression used in the context. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sznumGZKYcA thank you.