Sounds more like a statistical misattribution to me.<p>1. Many unclear English sentences have &quot;to be&quot;.<p>2. Therefore, let&#x27;s disallow &quot;to be&quot; to make English clearer.<p>Well, the obvious alternate explanation is:<p>3. Since &quot;be&quot; is an extremely common word, for most attribute X, a subset of &quot;English sentences with attribute X&quot; will naturally have many sentences with &quot;to be&quot;.<p>I mean, in what way is &quot;Mars is round&quot; any less clear&#x2F;objective&#x2F;interesting than &quot;Mars orbits around the sun&quot;?