Dear Professor
"If muggers can be deterred by punitive sentencing, then some of them must be made an example of."
Why is there no object after "... example of" ?
Thank you and best regards
Antoine Ghannoum
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A good question!
This is an example of how in English a phrasal verb (even a relatively complex one such as 'make an example of') can be passivized exactly as if it were a simple, one-word transitive verb.
In such cases, the preposition is retained at the end, just as it would be in a relative clause such as
He's the person that I was thinking of.
This is an example of how in English a phrasal verb (even a relatively complex one such as 'make an example of') can be passivized exactly as if it were a simple, one-word transitive verb.
In such cases, the preposition is retained at the end, just as it would be in a relative clause such as
He's the person that I was thinking of.