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Youngbuts Posted 14 years ago
Grammar
About the verb threaten
Can I say She treatened him to turn off the TV implying that the suject of "to turn off" is him not her?
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"She threatened she would make him turn off the TV."
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Yes, I wonder whether it can be simmilar to what you said. I have learned I can say "She asked him to turn off the TV" or "He forced him to get out of the room.". So, as a E.T(I'm from Mars, who is trying to learn English), I reasonably guessed the above sentence, "She threatened him to turn off the TV" could be possible. However, my dictionaries don't support my sentence. Google has a few sentenc
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