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Anonymous Posted 15 years ago
Grammar

Question about grammar. To? Not to?

I saw her play the piano. OK

I saw her TO play the piano. NOT OK

I want you play the piano. NOT OK

I want you TO play the piano. OK

I've been trying to reseach and figure this out. My grammar sense tingles when I hear the wrong ones so I FEEL they are wrong but for the life of me I don't know WHY they are wrong.

indirect object? prepositional phrases? I tried using an online sentence parser

http://beta.visl.sdu.dk/visl/en/parsing/automatic/trees.php

That thing tells me "to play the piano" and "play the piano" are adverbial clauses which makes no sense to me so I think is wrong.

Any ideas? Any help would be appreciated.
  

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This is elementary, Anon. I remember writing about the plain/bare infinitive before. You can read it CB

— Cool Breeze

  • This is elementary, Anon.
  • I remember writing about the plain/bare infinitive before.
  • You can read it CB
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This is elementary, Anon. I remember writing about the plain/bare infinitive before. You can read it

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