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Anonymous Posted 15 years ago
Essay & Composition Writing

Re: condition

All we wanted was him to be okay and all we can do is pray for him.
  

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" To put another sentence here after "I wanted" use for + pronoun + to , or you could say, "All I wanted was that he be okay". "

  • " To put another sentence here after "I wanted" use for + pronoun + to , or you could say, "All I wanted was that he be okay".
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"All I wanted was for him to be okay." To put another sentence here after "I wanted" use for + pronoun + to , or you could say, "All I wanted was that he be okay". The latter is more formal, and so is not entirely appropriate with the informal word "okay." You can transform the second sentence into the first by eliminating the word "that" and putting "for," changing he to him, and adding the wor

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