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Joseph A Posted 8 years ago
Grammar
Fear
Hello everyone,
Can "fear" be followed by either "full infinitive" or "gerund" as follows?
1. He fears to be attacked
2. He fears being attacked.
3. He fears to go out alone.
4. He fears going out alone.
Regards,
JA
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Joseph A Hello everyone, Can "fear" be followed by either "full infinitive" or "gerund" as follows? 1. He fears to be attacked 2.
- Joseph A Hello everyone, Can "fear" be followed by either "full infinitive" or "gerund" as follows?
- 1.
- He fears to be attacked 2.
- He fears being attacked.
- 3.
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Joseph AHello everyone,
Can "fear" be followed by either "full infinitive" or "gerund" as follows?
1. He fears to be attacked
2. He fears being attacked.
3. He fears to go out alone.
4. He fears going out alone.
Regards,
JA
Yes. I checked it out on Google Ngrams, and found that people used to use the infinit
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