Please help me to complete this sentence:
This is a great track. It will get everybody _______.
Which one is better: dance or dancing?
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Either "dancing" or "to dance", but the first one sounds a bit less manipulative (as if everyone is doing it out of excitement, not because they are expected to).
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There's lots of words in English that "take" other words as "parameters." Many English verbs take objects, for example, but there's other possibilities.
I ate the food (The food is an object of ate. I ate X - X would be the object.)
The dog is brown (brown is a subject complement of dog.)
Martha is a dancer (a dancer is a "predicate nominative" of Martha)
The plain/present-tense form of a verb cannot ever be "taken" by another word by itself, unless:
- -ing is tacked on to it,
- to is in front it,
- a relative pronoun is in front of it (words like who, which)
- something happens in the sentence where you can start the "Subject-Verb-Etc" pattern over again.
It will get everybody to dance.
It will get everybody who dances to have fun.
It will get everybody dancing.
We dance until the night falls.
