New answers tagged infinitives
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Continuous and perfect infinitives
There's a big difference. For one thing, #1 ("I want you to be doing your homework when I get home") is reasonably idiomatic, but #2 ("I want you to have been doing your homework when I ...
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Long infinitives
She seems to be going to go to work
This sentence is odd because "seems" indicates you're making a judgment based on what you've observed, and "going to go to..." requires you ...
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Different infinitves
to work is just a purpose. The idea.
to be working is the actual activity of doing work.
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Long infinitives
I'm sure this expression and others that are like it have lots of use in various spoken expressions. But as the same idea can be expressed differently, why bother?
Long expressions have many ...
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