What is grammatically wrong with the sentence,  "I feel to eat."?  After the verb feel, can the infinitive of another verb be used?
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Is it correct to say, "I don't feel to trust him," particularly in British English?  I'm actually a native speaker, but I live in Italy with my Italian wife, and so I've got so used to her (English language) mistakes, that sometimes I don't even know if they're mistakes or not.  In any case, this is something my wife says, but it doesn't sound quite natural to me, but I'm just not sure any more.  Is there a more natural way of saying it (in British English, or other dialects)?
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As I understand it, 'for' is a coordinating conjunction. Learning German as a second language has taught me specifics about reforming sentences, but it is an awful lot less common in English. If I were to rearrange the sentence: "I ate lunch, for I was hungry," so that 'for' was the first word of the sentence, by my reckoning I should end up with "For that I was hungry, I ate lunch." Does this new sentence have any grammatical errors? I inserted the word 'that' after 'for', because without it the sentence didn't sound right. Should I have? Is there a rule for that? Thank you in advance, an aspiring author.  Additional Information:  I am not having problems with the sentence, this is a general question to increase my knowledge of the manipulations of coordinating conjuntions.
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My grammar book says that if you saw the complete action you use do/get/drive: &quot;I saw him fall off the wall.&quot; Otherwise you use -ing: &quot;I saw him standing at the bus stop.&quot; A native American speaker said that he doesn't agree with that and there is no difference whether you use -ing or not. He said that particularly in these situations I can use either verb without affecting the meaning:  —How do you know I took the money? —I know it because I saw you take / taking it. —How did the woman fall? —I don't know. I didn't see her fall / falling.   He couldn't come up with a situation where this rule makes sense. But I tried to come up with such situation and he said that in this case it can be true.  I saw him eat the whole plate of pasta.  He ate everything that was on the plate. I saw him finish it.  I saw him eating the whole plate of pasta.  I saw how he was eating from a plate full of pasta. But I'm not sure whether he ate everything or not. I didn't see him finish it.  Please comment on what has been said. And give your opinion about this rule.
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I can say "I feed someone". Am I forced to say "I give someone a drink", or is there a single word for this (as in "I [verb] someone")?  Unfortunately my thesaurus can't really help me.
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I'm confused about 'want you to do (something)' and 'want you do (something)'.  Example:      "I want you to eat fish" instead of "I want you eat fish" or "I want that you eat fish".    Can anyone explain what is the grammar rule for this?
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Lately I have noticed that a lot of people use "wanting" in sentences, or in books, but I don't get it because my English teachers have always said to me that with verbs like "love", "like", "want" etc. we can't write the verb ending "-ing". But how it is possible that it's in book then?   Some examples:      She reached her hand out, wanting to touch him...     Not wanting to talk about it, Clary turned...     Actually, I’ve been wanting to ask you how...     I really want to know where I can use it and where I can't. It really drives me crazy that I don't know it.
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I read  article and here it is mentioned that "I miss to swim" is grammatically incorrect. However, I do not see any issue with it.  Could some language expert please clarify.
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Why are there some people saying     Me trying to...   Should it be      "I try to..."    Is this grammatically correct? How should I then finish this?
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When we use causative verbs as in    I asked you to do something   we use 'to do'.   However, we don't say    *I made you to do something    but just    I made you do something.   Is there any particular reason that we use zero (bare) infinitives after make, have, let?
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Why isn't the present tense used?     I am wondering if you would like to come for dinner.
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Which is right?      I went to the (mall) to meet my parents for lunch / to lunch   This for a paper I am submitting for a writing assignment. I have heard "to lunch" is right, but is it right in this sentence please?
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I believe the sentence in the title is grammatically correct.   Recently I've seen too many people writing it this way:     I'm not sure what is the right way.   Is it grammatically correct as well? Maybe in a different sense? Or simply misuse by non-native speakers?
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Is it correct to say "Would you mind to do something?". I've seen this usage in a few places, but it doesn't sound right to me. I would guess that it's proper to use "Would you mind doing something?" instead.   Yet there are other verbs we could substitute here that make it sound correct with "to". For example, "Would you like to do something?" and "Would you care to do something?"  Could someone explain why "mind to" doesn't sound correct in this context, while "like to" and "care to" sound exactly right?
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Why is the phrase "I hope this computer work" unacceptable? The word "hope" makes the phrase subjunctive, so why isn't it correct to use the infinitive verb form?
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To me the expression     Let's simply share   seems wrong.  I've always thought the adverb should come after the verb. Is that correct?
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In a , on the fifth page (labelled "359"), it says resultative secondary predicates can only be stative adjectival passives. For example, "John hammered the metal flat" is valid but "John hammered the metal flattened" is not. However, there are other secondary predicates that don't follow this rule. "I prefer my food salted" uses "salted," a resultative, as a secondary predicate. Also, "This software comes pre-installed by the manufacturer" is a valid sentence, but I don't think "pre-installed" is an adjectival passive, so I am not quite sure about the rules on secondary predicates and passives.
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English isn't my mother tongue. I'm familiar with the notions of infinitive and gerund but I sometimes just don't know which of the two should be used in combination with which verb.  Thomson and Martinet [1986] provide some verbs that may take either infinitive or gerund without changing the meaning (advise, allow, ...).  I am looking for a list of verbs and the allowed construction (gerund/infinitive/both). Ideally this should be a text-based list so I can search it on my computer without having to use the internet.  [Thomson and Martinet, 1986] A. J. Thomson and A. V. Martinet, A Practical English Grammar, Oxford University Press, isbn: 0-19-431342-5, 1986.