Anonymous Posted 9 years ago
Vocabulary
As planned
The election will go ahead as planned on Thursday.
Is "planned" a past participle or a finite verb in the sentence above?
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anonymous Is "planned" a past participle or a finite verb in the sentence above? There is no way of judging because of the elision. Two paraphrases are possible: The election will go ahead as [we] planned on Thursday.
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anonymousIs "planned" a past participle or a finite verb in the sentence above?
There is no way of judging because of the elision. Two paraphrases are possible:
The election will go ahead as [we] planned on Thursday.
The election will go ahead as [it was] planned
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