consider

Is this a typical frame for the verb consider: someone considers someone to do something.

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Stimulus sentence

I am a fully qualified Santa Claus and am wondering whether you might consider me to run my own "Santa's Grotto" in your store.

Observations

This query searches for the LEMMA of consider followed by a verb up to 3 places to the right. And the omission of BE immediately to the left prevents any passive forms from appearing. The FRAME of a passive construction is quite different from an active one. Unfortunately, the progessive forms are also omitted in this query, unless an element appears between the auxiliary BE and the target verb.

The query on the right produces 6,086 hits. Within three places to the right of consider, 2.480 are -ing forms (VVG) and 806 are the infinitive to be. The actual phrase CONSIDER to be occurs 311 times, but CONSIDER to + another verb, only35 times.

There are 210 hits of CONSIDER + noun + verb. And 567 with a determiner before the noun.

There are no real examples of the frame above. This is not how the verb is typically used. It may be regarded as a shorthand, or ellipsis for

    • you might consider me a potential candidate for

    • consider me suitable to run something.