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Anonymous Posted 15 years ago
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The analysis of this sentense especially to the "build".why not building

Years ago,you could ask your neighbors to help build your house.
  

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Anonymous Years ago,you could ask your neighbors to help build your house. I suppose all those verbs are "caternative," or something like that. Some verbs may be followed by both the infinitive and the gerund, and some verbs take only one or only the other.

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  • Anonymous Years ago,you could ask your neighbors to help build your house.
  • I suppose all those verbs are "caternative," or something like that.
  • Some verbs may be followed by both the infinitive and the gerund, and some verbs take only one or only the other.
  • " V is the infinitive.
  • " V is the infinitive.
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AnonymousYears ago,you could ask your neighbors to help build your house.
I suppose all those verbs are "caternative," or something like that.

Some verbs may be followed by both the infinitive and the gerund, and some verbs take only one or only the other.
"Ask/tell him V." V is the infinitive.
"Help him V." V is
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