Tuesday, June 2, 2015

grammaticality - Omission of "is" in "She thought the study of Latin a waste of time."

In The Elements of Style, the authors give this example:




She thought the study of Latin a waste of time.




I cannot understand why the verb is has been omitted. Should not this sentence be as:





She thought the study of Latin is a waste of time.


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