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I want you to marry her. Is it grammatically correct if I also say: I want that you marry her. If not why?

Clive · Accepted Answer

.It's not wrong,but it is very unusual.

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I want you to marry her. Is it grammatically correct if I also say: I want that you marry her? If not why?

I would judge it incorrect, or at best a literal translation from a Romance language like Spanish or Portuguese. It is not a natural grammatical pattern in the English language. To translate this, you have to start from a pattern that is incorrect in the other language:

Yo quiero tu casarte ella. >>> I want you to marry her. (Wrong in Spanish; correct in English)

Otherwise you'll get the wrong result in English:

Quiero que te cases con ella. >>> Want that you marry with her. (Correct in Spanish; wrong in English)

You will learn English more quickly if you avoid word-by-word translations from your own language.
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Even if you don't speak Spanish, I think you can understand the general principle here.

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