Bare infinitive and gerund
'A word of encouragement and explanation, of pity for my childish ignorance, of welcome home, of reassurance to me that it was home, might have made me dutiful to him in my heart henceforth, instead of in my hypocritical outside, and might have made me respect instead of hate him.'
I suppose that 'hate him' after 'instead of' is a bare infinitive phrase. Even if I substitue 'hating' for 'hate him', Is that also right, not affecting the original, cognitive meaning?
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and might have made me respect (him) instead of hate him. The infinitives respect and hate follow the causative (catenative) verb make . You can substitute the gerund, but it disrupts the parallelism of the sentence.
- and might have made me respect (him) instead of hate him.
- The infinitives respect and hate follow the causative (catenative) verb make .
- You can substitute the gerund, but it disrupts the parallelism of the sentence.
- and might have made me respect him instead of making me hate him.
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... and might have made me respect (him) instead of hate him.
The infinitives respect and hate follow the causative (catenative) verb make.
You can substitute the gerund, but it disrupts the parallelism of the sentence.
... and might have made me respect him instead of making me hate him.
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