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Expressfinn Posted 12 years ago
Grammar

to beat, beat or beating

Which one of the following phrases are correct English?

1) Your eyes make my heart to beat.
2) Your eyes make my heart beat.
3) Your eyes make my heart beating.

Even worse. Someone suggested me the following:

4) Your eyes makes my heart beat.
  

Top answer

Only item #2 is grammatically correct. However, I will add that it seems like an odd phrase altogether. "

  • Only item #2 is grammatically correct.
  • However, I will add that it seems like an odd phrase altogether.
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Only item #2 is grammatically correct.

However, I will add that it seems like an odd phrase altogether.

If what you are trying to indicate is a level of attraction and your physical response to it, perhaps you can try something like, "My heart skips a beat when I see your pretty eyes."
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Please do not post a question more than once. It wastes the time of members who may respond to a question that has already been satisfactorily answered.

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