Timeline for When do we use a bare infinitive with recommend
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| Feb 25, 2021 at 18:38 | comment | added | Lambie | Two downvotes, really? I am getting somewhat fed-up with the attitude here. | |
| Feb 25, 2021 at 15:29 | comment | added | Lambie | @JeffMorrow I repeat, rjpond's first comment is inaccurate:' "I advise you to leave" is perfectly good English'. Yes, perfectly good English, but not a to infinitive after the verb advise. advise **someone to do something. And of course, now a mod will remove my objections and put everything else in chat. Can't "win" for losing. | |
| Feb 24, 2021 at 22:44 | comment | added | Jeff Morrow | "To book" and "to leave" are infinitives. The comment was correct. | |
| Feb 24, 2021 at 15:43 | comment | added | Lambie | @rjpond Your first comment is still wrong and it was upvoted. If I were you, I would be nice about it and just delete it. | |
| Feb 24, 2021 at 15:24 | comment | added | rjpond | OK, thanks. The reason for my comment was that the OP gave the sentence "We'd recommend you to book your flight early". So it appeared to me (perhaps wrongly) that your statement was in response to that. Clearly, "recommend" is ungrammatical in the OP's sentence - but "advise" wouldn't be. | |
| Feb 24, 2021 at 14:55 | comment | added | Lambie | @rjpond Bear in mind that I said: advise does not take a to-infinitive: I like to play tennis. [okay, to infinitive]. I advise to play the odds now. [buzzer]. So, in fact my comment was what I meant because "advise you to x" is not a to infinitive due to the you. So please reconsider your comment. " "I advise you to leave" is perfectly good English.", Yes, perfectly good English but not a to infinitive. | |
| Feb 24, 2021 at 14:53 | history | edited | Lambie | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Feb 24, 2021 at 14:45 | comment | added | rjpond | I agree. You can word it with the subjunctive ("we advise (that) you leave now") or with a direct object plus to-infinitival clause ("we advise you to leave now"). The omission or inclusion of "to" isn't the only difference - one of them has an optional "that". Different structure. | |
| Feb 24, 2021 at 13:19 | comment | added | rjpond | I agree that "recommend" and "suggest" don't take "to" infinitives, but surely "advise" can. "I advise you to leave" is perfectly good English. | |
| Jan 9, 2019 at 18:10 | history | answered | Lambie | CC BY-SA 4.0 |