Re:Adding a feature because ChatGPT incorrectly thinks it ex...
by ModernMech on Monday July 07, 2025 @04:24PM
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"In addition to the points that have already been made"
Re:Adding a feature because ChatGPT incorrectly thinks it ex...
by kragen on Monday July 07, 2025 @05:00PM
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I agree that that has the same meaning, but I think it may have a different grammatical structure, with an entire subordinate clause that was missing from the original. Since the voice of a verb is a grammatical rather than semantic question, this seems relevant; "in addition to the points people have already made" is also (probably) semantically equivalent but unquestionably uses the active voice.
Can you insert an elided copula into it without changing the meaning and grammatical structure? I'm not sure. I don't think so. I think "In addition to the points already being made" means something different: the object of the preposition "to" is now "being", and we are going to discuss things in addition to that state of affairs, perhaps other things that have happened to the points (being sharpened, perhaps, or being discarded), not things in addition to the points.