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The purpose of this paper is to discuss the ECM Construction in English in the light of some assumptions in the Minimalist theory in linguistics. Chomsky's (1995) framework raises a question as to the intervening adverbials in the ECM constructions. He assumes in his footnote that the adverb will be relevant only if it has the feature that [Agr, V] complex can attract, which is plausible though not obvious. Under the Agree analysis in Chomsky (1998), the probe of the light verb o agrees with the goal to delete the uninterpretable feature. In order for Agree to be possible, the goal must have the uninterpretable feature for the purpose of being active. If so, an adverbial must have the uninterpretable feature as a closer element in order to be active in Agree. However, his consideration causes conceptual and empirical problems in the minimalist assumption. Rather, we may raise the embedded subject to the [Spec, V] in ECM constructions