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

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

 AS>  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...



 AS>  It is a perfectly valid grammarical construction
                              |[typo alert!]

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


 AS>  Trowest not thou so?


          Aye, forsooth....  :-))




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