Jane Austen [amongst others] uses an interesting type of grammatical
construction of this sort:
After breakfast, the girls walked to Meryton to inquire if Mr. Wickham
_were returned_, and to lament over his absence from the Netherfield ball.
Pride and Prejudice.
I would like to analyse a million word corpus that I have been granted
access to for this type of construction.
However, I don't want to find examples of only 'were returned', but all
examples of
were + infinitive / preterite / past participle
and, presumably for that I shall have to use wildcards . . .
OR ???
Richmond.
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