Alexander Koryagin asked:

President Trump unveiled his 2019 budget plan, here are
five takeaways that will affect the American people.

Trump's 2019 budget book is called "An American budget".

Why "an" -- not "the"? After all, we know it is about
the US budget for 2019. I'd say "The American 2019
budget" or "The US' 2019 budget".

I think Trump implies that the budget is American in spirit.
The budget he proposes in an American one. In this sense,
"the" would be inappropriate because, obviously, it is not
the only possible American budget.

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Hi, Anton! Recently you corrected one of your earlier messages as follows:

I should not be surprised if Trump condemned the
budgets of Obama as unamarican.

* unamerican

Yes, that is an improvement. I would suggest a further improvement, however, which takes into account that the word "American" usually begins with an upper-case "A" in English. My CANADIAN OXFORD DICTIONARY & my RANDOM HOUSE WEBSTER'S get around the issue of whether or not to capitalize "American" in a situation where a prefix is used by spelling the above "un-American".... :-))




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Ardith Hinton wrote:

Sometimes, as in "He thought it rather strange that
there was a car hanging from the underside of the
Granville Street Bridge." The repetition of "was" in
such cases would sound unnecessary at best to many
native speakers of English.

I don't think it either an elision or an exception. It is a
perfectly valid grammarical construction with verbs
"consider", "think", "deem", &c. Trowest not thou so?

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I wrote:

It is a perfectly valid grammarical construction

s/b.: grammatical.

A little more attention won't harm me at all at all.

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Hi, Ardith Hinton -> Alexander Koryagin!
I read your message from 24.06.2018 16:06
about Trump's 2019 budget.

Although, recently, somebody told me here that "to be" could be
omitted when things are clear without it. ;-)

Sometimes, as in "He thought it rather strange that there was a car hanging from the underside of the Granville Street Bridge." The
repetition of "was" in such cases would sound unnecessary at best
to many native speakers of English. One must be careful, however,
not to read too much into what one has been told about xxx and/or
(to) assume (that) the same applies to yyy.... :-)

I was trying to hide my lapse behind the joke. :)

I tend to think, or incline to the opiniton that...

It is also correct, I think.

While I see a typo in "opinion", I'm content with the grammar. ;-)

Anton prefers errors instead of a spell checker. ;)

I fear you cannot call a budget project a book :-)

Have you seen the book photograph at the URL I provided? (no "to
be" again before "provided").

I'd be more inclined to call it a document, but in this part of the
world some proposed legislation could easily fill a book... [wry
grin].

Now, as for the grammar... "I provided" is correct. You could have
said "which I provided", but "which" is optional in such
situations. The only reason I can think of offhand for using "to
be" with a transitive verb such as "provide" is that you are using

As for "no to be" it was a senseless addition from my side. Probably, I was sleepy. And I was also too lazy to write another message with an explanation of
another lapse of mine. ;)
<skipped>

Bye, Ardith!
Alexander Koryagin
ENGLISH_TUTOR 2018

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Alexander Koryagin:

Anton prefers errors instead of a spell checker. ;)

Wrong. I prefer *typos* *to* a spell checker :-)

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Hi, Alexander! Recently you wrote in a message to Anton Shepelev:

I prone to think that it was an accurate article title
"Trump's 2019 budget".

Ah, "I am prone to think".

Uh-huh. I tend to think Alexander will see such errors for himself if I just sit back & wait awhile... as he did there. As Anton has pointed out "prone" is not a verb. OTOH "tend" is, so the rules are a bit different. :-)

Although, recently, somebody told me here that "to be"
could be omitted when things are clear without it. ;-)

Sometimes, as in "He thought it rather strange that there was a car hanging from the underside of the Granville Street Bridge." The repetition of "was" in such cases would sound unnecessary at best to many native speakers of English. One must be careful, however, not to read too much into what one has been told about xxx and/or (to) assume (that) the same applies to yyy.... :-)

I tend to think, or incline to the opiniton that...

It is also correct, I think.

While I see a typo in "opinion", I'm content with the grammar. ;-)

I fear you cannot call a budget project a book :-)

Have you seen the book photograph at the URL I provided?
(no "to be" again before "provided").

I'd be more inclined to call it a document, but in this part of the world some proposed legislation could easily fill a book... [wry grin].

Now, as for the grammar... "I provided" is correct. You could have said "which I provided", but "which" is optional in such situations. The only reason I can think of offhand for using "to be" with a transitive verb such as "provide" is that you are using the passive voice because you don't want to go into detail or because you don't know who did whatever. Dallas & I have found ourselves asked to attend meetings, e.g., where "lunch will be provided". One might also say "Mrs. Smith's car has been stolen" for similar reasons.... :-)




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Hi, Anton Shepelev -> Alexander Koryagin!
I read your message from 16.06.2018 13:37
about Trump's 2019 budget.

President Trump unveiled his 2019 budget plan, here are
five takeaways that will affect the American people.

Trump's 2019 budget book is called "An American budget".

Why "an" -- not "the"? After all, we know it is about
the US budget for 2019. I'd say "The American 2019
budget" or "The US' 2019 budget".

I think Trump implies that the budget is American in spirit.
The budget he proposes in an American one. In this sense,
"the" would be inappropriate because, obviously, it is not
the only possible American budget.

I also think so. I prone to think that it was an accurate article title "Trump's 2019 budget". The book was not about 2019 budget -- I think the correct title (both for article and the book) could have been "How to plan an American budget effectively". Indeed, "2019 year" was an invention of the journalist.

(https://goo.gl/L3B6Vv)

Bye, Anton!
Alexander Koryagin
ENGLISH_TUTOR 2018

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Alexander Koryagin to Anton Shepelev:

I think Trump implies that the budget is American in
spirit. The budget he proposes in an American one. In
this sense, "the" would be inappropriate because,
obviously, it is not the only possible American budget.

I also think so. I prone to think that it was an
accurate article title "Trump's 2019 budget". The book
was not about 2019 budget -- I think the correct title
(both for article and the book) could have been "How to
plan an American budget effectively". Indeed, "2019
year" was an invention of the journalist.

I should not be surprised if Trump condemned the budgets of
Obama as unamarican.

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I wrote:

I should not be surprised if Trump condemned the budgets
of Obama as unamarican.

* unamerican

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Alexander Koryagin:

I prone to think that it was an accurate article title
"Trump's 2019 budget".

There is no verb "to prone" (unless you have just invented
it). I tend to think, or incline to the opiniton that...

The book was not about 2019 budget -- I think the
correct title (both for article and the book) could have
been "How to plan an American budget effectively".

I fear you cannot call a budget project a book :-)

Indeed, "2019 year" was an invention of the journalist.

No, not at all. It is the proposed budget specifically for
2019.

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Hi! Anton Shepelev -> Alexander Koryagin!
I read your message from 18.06.2018 18:56

I prone to think that it was an accurate article title
"Trump's 2019 budget".

Ah, "I am prone to think". Although, recently, somebody told me here that "to be" could be omitted when things are clear without it. ;-)

There is no verb "to prone" (unless you have just invented
it). I tend to think, or incline to the opiniton that...

It is also correct, I think.

The book was not about 2019 budget -- I think the
correct title (both for article and the book) could have
been "How to plan an American budget effectively".

I fear you cannot call a budget project a book :-)

Have you seen the book photograph at the URL I provided? (no "to be" again before "provided").

Indeed, "2019 year" was an invention of the journalist.

No, not at all. It is the proposed budget specifically for
2019.

;-) IN this case it should have been "It is _a_ proposed budget specifically for 2019". Probably, because they can have another budget draft, for instance from the Congress.

Bye, Anton!
Alexander Koryagin
ENGLISH_TUTOR 2018

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Hi, Anton! Recently you wrote in a message to Ardith Hinton:

Sometimes, as in "He thought it rather strange that
there was a car hanging from the underside of the
Granville Street Bridge." The repetition of "was"
in such cases would sound unnecessary at best to many
native speakers of English.

I don't think it either an elision or an exception.

Yes, there's another example. And yes, because the implied "(to) be"
is a linking verb in this context the same construction works with both nouns &
adjectives... and with some participles which also function as adjectives:

Consider it done!
I deem it an honour and a privilege to...
I count myself fortunate (in) that...

It is a perfectly valid grammarical construction

|[typo alert!]

with verbs "consider", "think", "deem", &c.

Trowest not thou so?

Aye, forsooth.... :-))




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