Man_From_India

@CowperKettle nice to see you. Any old fellow are there?

@I don't know who I am. What was your previous username?

No no not over. In here legal matter is dragged :D it actually started in 2019. But yes it is a learning phase for me too. Like how to carry yourself when you have no weapons to fight, when you are falsely accused. Thankfully I get advice from a few fellow victims. At least now I can deal with my lawyers better, because I know the law a bit. It's all about knowledge, and it's power :-) but only problem is finance, and not able to execute the plan to secure a better future financially.

And the administration, police, law enforcing bodies are making it more troublesome. They just need money, will absorb even the last penny out of you, scaring you, and not helping you at all. Though it is not that even after taking money they will work for you honestly. It is pretty much same story almost for all the males who are victim of these false legal cases

@EddieKal about my personal life? Yes I am pretty devastated and hence get little time to spare. Though I have time, I spend it worrying about how to go about the false legal allegations made against me. Though it is not surprising considering the proliferation of similar false cases registered against male throughout the country. It's the immence power bestowed on the women that they are misusing.

My huge reputation change triggered me to look for her and found she is gone.

Yes noticed snal's account is gone :(

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@Cerberus I too. But the problem is to access the correctness of including "work" in comparative clause. I would have called the inclusion a bad grammar or even a mistake. But after reading the correctness of keeping "afraid" in the comparative clause, made me confused.

The explanation behind why the first is correct is written in the question. If we analyse the last sentence the way way, can we say it is also right?

> She can get through more work in an hour than [I can get through __ work in a day].

Is the following also correct?

> He is more afraid of her than [she is __ afraid of him]. -> CORRECT

Can anyone help me here?

@Cerberus yes all that ... that is used as an adverbial. In today's English as far as I have seen this is used as a complement.

Thank you. Any such usage of "all" in othe example sentences?

What does ot function? And meaning? Does it mean "as hard as it could" which is what it says in that forum. But if that is the case what is the function of that part in the original sentence?

Now I have problem understanding"all that he could to bring him closer part"?

I found it on another forum. I don't know if it is okay to ask similar questions from another forum. But it is purely for language purpose.

@Cerberus in BNC I found almost no hit for "objective is/waa verb+ing". Only a few when we have a modifier before "objective" like "primary/main" etc.

From The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

> The wizard seemed asleep, but with lids not fully closed:

From The Immoralist by a French Author Andre Gide

> It was already late; not a sound; not a breath; the air itself seemed asleep

From The Washington Post

> Outside the AccorHotels Arena, it was a perfectly average November Sunday in Paris. The city seemed asleep beneath a heavy blanket of fog that rendered the top half go the Eiffel Tower indecipherable.

But I have found examples without "to be"too.

In an old book by AS Hornby it is written that "to be" can't be omitted.

how do this two sound?

> seem asleep

vs

> seem to be asleep

@Cerberus Remember the discussion about "objective + [be] + verb-ing"? It seems like there is some difference in usage between BrE and AmE.

@Cerberus yes AmE corpus. And thank you for your valuable comment there under the question.

@Cerberus good finding. Btw did you check COCA?

In the morning I quickly ran a search on COCA like this probably "the objective [be] vvg" and found nothing good there. @Cerberus

Yup but now that you said "the objective of the project is developing a framework" is good, it doesn't go well with my findings on COCA

From COCA I furnished some example sentences over there in my comment. And it seems it can.

nods

Yes I don't agree with what grammatical point he made in his answer.

But another probablyly BrE user thinks verb+ing is wrong. So a little confused. And that why I asked you if you are native to BrE or AmE

I searched COCA quickly and

Or better question, native to AmE or BrE

If you don't mind my asking, you are native to US or UK

Well in that case what about "my objective is developing a framework"?