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Gilysse Posted 17 years ago
Grammar

Is this correct?

"He heard someone screamed for help."

Is this sentence correct? If it isn't, could you please use "heard - screamed" to make a similar sentence?

Thanks for helping.
  

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It could be called correct, in the sense of "He heard that someone screamed for help", but it's odd at the very least. "He heard that someone had screamed for help" is much better.

— Prof Dunc

  • It could be called correct, in the sense of "He heard that someone screamed for help", but it's odd at the very least.
  • "He heard that someone had screamed for help" is much better.
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It could be called correct, in the sense of "He heard that someone screamed for help", but it's odd at the very least.

"He heard that someone had screamed for help" is much better.
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gilysse"He heard someone screamed for help."

Is this sentence correct?
No. You want

He heard someone scream for help.

After certain verbs (let, make, have, help, see, hear, for example), a second verb is in the bare infinitive form.

Let them go.
Make them go.
I saw them go.
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