saurabhmalpani wrote:
Business loans were considered to be more useful to recipient businesses than was management and technical assistance.
Ok guys we know that when consider is used in place of "regarded as" ........"to be" should not be used.
Ok so over here what do u think is the USE of TO BE appropriate.
This is very tricky part and can be one of the TYPES on our GMAT so let's get the CONCEPT straight.
Not sure you really want the this whole answer, but here you go. It's certainly OK to say "to be" on many occasions, just not after
considered in a sentence like that one. Understand this, and you'll master the concept.
Infinitive = to + verb
"Be" is a verb, and "to be" is the infinitive form of the verb. A verb usually expresses action, but its infinitive form serves one of three roles: noun, adjective, or adverb.
Take nouns. In a sentence, a noun is typically the subject, object, or a subject complement (a word that modifies or identifies the subject). Therefore, an infinitive such as "to be" can serve in any of these roles.
Here's what I mean with some examples of "to be" acting properly as a noun.
subject --- verb --- direct object
I want money.
I want
to be rich.
subject --- verb --- subject complement
An MBA is my goal.
To be a doctor is my goal.
With some of the idiom rules you see, such as "forbid to" vs "forbid from", what we're really saying is,
forbid is customarily followed by an infinitive form of a verb, instead of by the preposition "from":
I forbid you
to go ..... vs. ..... I forbid you from going
In the line above,
to go is acting as a noun serving as direct object (
you is indirect object.) Exactly the same as "I threw you the ball"... where
ball is the noun serving as direct object.
About
considered to be:
The issue comes up in the construction
subject + verb + subject complement, where the verb is "is considered":
subject + verb + subject complement
The loan + is considered + useful.
The point here is,
to be is simply unnecessary and redundant. It's not really grammatically incorrect, but the word "consider" in and of itself contains enough meaning that we know the word following it is a subject complement (modifies the subject), and so as a style preference you don't need "to be".