Saturday, December 23, 2017

linking verbs - "This Page Intentionally Left Blank"


This sentence often appears in a "blank" page of books. Why there's no linking verb after the subject (Page)? e.g.:



This Page Was Intentionally Left Blank




If the adverb in the original sentence is removed, we only have:



This Page Left Blank




So I wonder why the original sentence without a linking verb often appears in books. Is it not odd without a linking verb? Based on my understanding of the original sentence, it means that the page left itself blank, which is odd for me.


Hope to get some clarifications about this.




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