:If anything is elided in the question, it's an infinitive-- " Do you think me to be handsome ? " See Accusative and infinitive and Small clause . . . talk ) 19 : 15, 2 March 2015 ( UTC)
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Since the meaning across these clauses remains consistent, one tendency has been to view the ECM-material ( i . e ., the material in bold in the first four examples ) as a type of small clause that is analogous to the full clausal counterpart.
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:: : I'm sure " small clause in apposition to the subject " or whatever would be more descriptive, but " Nominative absolute " has been used as a shorthand term . . . talk ) 01 : 51, 1 June 2013 ( UTC)
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In this regard, there are a number of observations suggesting that the object / subject noun phrase is a direct dependent of the matrix verb, which means the flat structure is correct : the small clause generally does not behave as a single constituent with respect to constituency tests; the object becomes the subject of the corresponding passive sentence; and when the object is a reflexive pronoun, it is coindexed with the matrix subject:
