conduct a full and fair investigation

Hi, Navi,

@navi posted:

1) To that end, this matter has been referred to the Office of Internal Affairs to conduct a full and fair investigation.

Source:
https://www.yahoo.com/now/conn...olice-221551657.html

Is '1' grammatical?

Who is to conduct a full and fair investigation?

It seems to me that from a grammatical point of view the people who have referred the matter to the Office of Internal Affairs are to conduct a full and fair investigation.

However, the real meaning seems to be that the Office of Internal Affairs are going to conduct the investigation.

The sentence is understandable, but I agree that the subject should be made more explicit to avoid any ambiguity:

1a. To that end, this matter has been referred to the Office of Internal Affairs for them to conduct a full and fair investigation.

The problem with the sentence above is the position of the subject. See this other sentence where it is clear who is in charge of the investigation:

1b. The Office of Internal Affairs has been assigned this matter to conduct a full and fair investigation.

@navi posted:

2) I send you this document to study. (you are going to study the document)

3) I send you this document to learn Italian.
I think here I am going to learn Italian.

If it was
4) I send you this document to learn Italian with.
then it'd be you.

Gratefully,
Navi

PS. I think '3' works. One could say that the 'with' which is supposed to be at the end has been elided.

I think (2) and (3) work finely to mean that "you" is the person expected to study and to learn Italian. I think that, unlike in (1), here the proximity between "this document" and the infinitive renders a clearer interpretation of the intended meaning.

Hello, Navi and Gustavo—While remaining agnostic on the interesting subject-of-the-infinitive problem here, I'd simply like to note that the article contains a "for"-phrase toward the beginning which does not lead to the same issue:

• To that end, this matter has been referred to the Office of Internal Affairs for a full and fair investigation.

Thank you both very much,

I think we are getting different links or something. Something funny seems to be going on, or I am so exhausted my mind is playing tricks on me.

The article I see has two sentences about the same thing.