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Stenka25 Posted 13 years ago
Vocabulary

The sentence with “get”

The passage below is from a website. In this passage “getting the most employers will pay me” seems strange in grammatical sense.

In my knowledge, the sentence “getting the most employers to pay me” seems familiar.

Can you help me?
(If I am wrong, can you give me another example sentence?)

http://www.criticalmassachusetts.com/2012/03/another-round-of-gas-price-gouging.html

A: I maximize my income by getting the most employers will pay me.

B: I maximize my income by getting the most customers will pay me.

A: Price-gouger!
  

Top answer

getting the most [money that] employers will pay me -- This is fine, as you can see by the elision. getting the most employers to pay me -- This is grammatically fine, too, but very unusual in context: it sounds as if he has many, many jobs at the same time and is in a contest to see who can have the most jobs with solvent bosses.

— Mister Micawber

  • getting the most [money that] employers will pay me -- This is fine, as you can see by the elision.
  • getting the most employers to pay me -- This is grammatically fine, too, but very unusual in context: it sounds as if he has many, many jobs at the same time and is in a contest to see who can have the most jobs with solvent bosses.
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getting the most [money that] employers will pay me -- This is fine, as you can see by the elision.
getting the most employers to pay me -- This is grammatically fine, too, but very unusual in context: it sounds as if he has many, many jobs at the same time and is in a contest to see who can have the most jobs with solvent bosses.
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Thanks a lot as always, Mister Micawber.
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