What Frank did was wash his shirts yesterday.
(Bas Aarts, English Syntax and Argumentation)
It is said the highlighted part is a VP. And I think ‘was’ is the inflection and then ‘wash’ needs to be called not a bare infinitive but a verb root. Is this right?
(Bas Aarts, English Syntax and Argumentation)
It is said the highlighted part is a VP. And I think ‘was’ is the inflection and then ‘wash’ needs to be called not a bare infinitive but a verb root. Is this right?