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Terr3 Posted 19 years ago
Grammar

'bring' or 'bringing'?

0 'Thanks son, for bring(?) the world an even greater hell, one may(?) cause(?) the mankind a total annihilation in 14 days!' 02br
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00Should it be 'bring the world' or 'bringing to the world'? Is the first one any commonly used?02br
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00Should I use 'could' instead of 'may'? What's their difference btw. 02br
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00Did I use 'cause' right for creating annihilation?02br
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00TY in advance, a lot of questions here. 050010id1
  

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0 01i 00for02i 00 is a preposition Verbs after prepositions must always be in the 01i 00-ing02i 00 form. 02br 02br 01i 00may02i 00 is fine. 02br 01i 00could 02i 00is fine, too.

— CalifJim

  • 0 01i 00for02i 00 is a preposition Verbs after prepositions must always be in the 01i 00-ing02i 00 form.
  • 02br 02br 01i 00may02i 00 is fine.
  • 02br 01i 00could 02i 00is fine, too.
  • 02br 02br 00 CJ0-
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0 01i00for02i00 is a preposition Verbs after prepositions must always be in the 01i00-ing02i00 form. So 01i00for bring02i00 is 01u00never02u00 used.02br
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01i00may02i00 is fine. You don't need to change it.02br
01i00could 02i00is
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0 TY for replying CalifJim this is great I'm jotting 'em down.. 02br
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00For further question, is 'for bringing TO the world' grammarically incorrect?02br
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00I can understand inserting 'that' as 'one' stands unclear for this sentence alone, but why take the 'the' out before 'mankind', shouldn't mankind be an absolute thing like 'the sun', 'the earth
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0 01i00mankind02i00 never occurs with 01i00the02i00 or 01i00a02i00, but you can have 01i00all mankind02i00. You're correct that it's an 'absolute' thing, but it's not a 01u00single02u00 object like the sun. It's an abstract noun which represents 01u00billions02u
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