I am a native speaker of German, and I often see the English verb find being used like its German cognate finden. For example:
My students and I find your platform very useful and very appealing
visually, as well. — Source
This just feels wrong to me. Shouldn’t it be something like:
My students and I find your platform to be very useful and very appealing visually, as well.
Can you use find like that?
Best Answer
According to the Cambridge Grammar of English (p523) under the heading Complex Transitive Complementation:
The GCE includes the example:
This corresponds to the OP's first sentence:
which is consequently grammatical.
Among the other verbs listed by the CGE that can be followed by a direct object and object complement are: keep and make. CGE examples: