Grammatical?
Dear teachers,
Are the following sentences grammatical ?
1. I requested him to wait for me there while I should return to him later with the laptop.
2. I told the witness to wait outside while I took down other details from his friends.
Thank you very much.
Top answer
"To request someone to infinitive " sounds quite odd to me. I know people use it, but they shouldn't because it sounds quite odd to me, and they should care about that. It's like how I can taste truffle oil, and it tastes like brake fluid.
- "To request someone to infinitive " sounds quite odd to me.
- I know people use it, but they shouldn't because it sounds quite odd to me, and they should care about that.
- It's like how I can taste truffle oil, and it tastes like brake fluid.
- Or celantro (which has an English name, for crying out loud—coriander), which tastes like stinkbug urine on wet cardboard.
- But still they dump it in food I'm expected to eat.
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"To request someone to infinitive" sounds quite odd to me. I know people use it, but they shouldn't because it sounds quite odd to me, and they should care about that. It's like how I can taste truffle oil, and it tastes like brake fluid. Or celantro (which has an English name, for crying out loud—coriander), which tastes like stinkbug urine on wet cardboard. But still they dump it in f
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