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I'd like to see the branch campus funding allocated for teachers' salaries in order
to decrease the student-teacher ratios.
is "allocated "a verb? , the branch campus funding is " subject" of past tense of
" allocated"?
Thanks very much

Re: allocated

I'd like to see the branch campus funding allocated for teachers' salaries in order to decrease the student-teacher ratios".


Yes, "allocated" is a verb, but it's a past participle, not a past tense form. "The branch campus funding" is the grammatical object of "see", but we also understand it as the subject of "allocated". The element that I've underlined is a past-participial subordinate clause that has a passive interpretation. It's function in the sentence is complement to the verb "see".


PaulM