be to have p.p
All departments in the factory "are to have conspicuously labeled "suggestion boxes.
I don't understand this sentence.
and why doesn't it use "are to label" , it uses "are to have" instead?
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Answers · 3
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The SUBJECT of the sentence is "departments"
Departments CAN NOT label suggestion boxes.
'departments are to label' doesn't make sense.
Departments CAN have suggestions boxes.
'departments are to have' does make sense.
You can also rewrite the sentence like this:
There must be conspicuously labeled suggestions boxes in all departments.
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Here your sentence is in Passive form. Therefore, 'are to have' is used instead of 'are to label'.
If the sentence is like this:
" You are to label suggestion boxes."
'are to label' would be used as this is in active form.
Hope that answers the question.
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