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Marold Posted 13 years ago
Grammar

Recommend + verb

"I can recommend you our capital city."
"I can recommend our capital city to you."
"I can recommend that you visit our capital city."
"I can recommend visiting our capital city."
"I can recommend you/your visiting our capital city."
"I can recommend you to visit our capital city."

Are these all possibilities correct and possible to say? Do you have any other suggestions?

Thanks a lot.

  

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"I can recommend you our capital city." Not so good.
"I can recommend our capital city to you." Good.
"I can recommend that you visit our capital city." Very good.
"I can recommend visiting our capital city." Good.
"I can recommend you/y
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How come then? Is it another perceptible difference between AmE and BrE?

Notice this from Oxford dictionary (http://oald8.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/dictionary/recommend):

recommend somebody to do something: We'd recommend you to book your fligh
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MaroldIs it another perceptible difference between AmE and BrE?
That is possible. Oxford's sample sentence sounds clunky to me!
I would use one of these:

We'd recommend that you book your flight early.
We'd recommend booking your flight early.

(I'm confident that both of those are fine in both AmE and BrE.)

CJ
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Ok, thank you a lot. I will stick to what is sure to be correct! Emotion: wink
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CalifJimWe'd recommend that you book your flight early.We'd recommend booking your flight early.(I'm confident that both of those are fine in both AmE and BrE.)
This speaker of BrE is happy with those.
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