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Anewcomer Posted 18 years ago
Grammar

make me starve

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00Is it common to say: Now they are making me starving / Now they make me starve02br
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0 Hi,02br 00I think the structure is "make someone do something", so you should say "making me starve", "make me starve", etc. 050010id1

— Kooyeen

  • 0 Hi,02br 00I think the structure is "make someone do something", so you should say "making me starve", "make me starve", etc.
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0 Hi,02br
00I think the structure is "make someone do something", so you should say "making me starve", "make me starve", etc. 050010id1
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0Ok, so Teachers, is it true that make (someone) verb-ing is not common and not right?02br
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00e.g : They make/making me writing more songs, They make/making me starving more0-
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0 Double "ing" forms are generally a no-no. So ....0-
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0Hi,02br
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00A small extra comment. You could also say 'They are starving me'.02br
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00Clive0-
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0Ok so I'll say I can say it like this: 01b00They make me starving02b00, since a double ing-ing is a no-no (besides "They are starving me")02br
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00Is the sentence in bold correct?02br
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00One extra question : Is this sentence correct "01b00 Is the sentences in bold grammatical?" 02b00 it's because I s
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0Hi,02br
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01font00Ok so I'll say I can say it like this: 01b00They make me starving02b00, since a double ing-ing is a no-no (besides "They are starving me")02font02br
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01font00Is the sentence in bold correct? 02font00No, it sounds weird. Generally
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