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The Literature professor said that she considered Herman Melville to be the single greatest American fiction writer.

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The Literature professor said that she considered Herman Melville to be the single greatest American fiction writer.

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The correct idiom is "consider A B," as in, "consider Melville the single greatest American fiction writer." There should be no "to be" between the A and B in this construction.

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