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Taka Posted 12 years ago
Grammar

Order

Does this sentence work? If not, why not?

He ordered there to be two men in the room.
  

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Taka He ordered there to be two men in the room. It's okay, but the sentence below is better. '

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TakaHe ordered there to be two men in the room. It's okay, but the sentence below is better.
'He ordered that there be two men in the room.'
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TakaDoes this sentence work? If not, why not?He ordered there to be two men in the room.
It's OK. But a little stilted for my tastes.

I would say:
He ordered that there be two men in the room.
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AlpheccaStars But a little stilted for my tastes.
To your native ear, it doesn't sound wrong and at least it makes sense, right, AS?
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Great! Thanks, AS!
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The sentence is completely understandable, and apparently grammatically correct, but the problem with it is that a native speaker's subconscious immediately comes up with, "He ordered that there be two men in the room.", when he sees the original sentence, so that the original does not look quite right afterwards, and looks even less right each time it is mentally compared side-by-side with the mo
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It sounds OK to me.
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