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Chalk train Posted 9 years ago
Grammar
Usage of having in the following sentence
When you both are insanely drunk, I end up having to carry you both home.
When you both are insanely drunk, I end up carrying you both home.
Are these both sentences interchangeable? Do they imply the same thing? What's the point of using the word "having"?
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chalk train Are these both sentences interchangeable? Do they imply the same thing? Yes, unless there is some obvious external agent of coercion in the context.
- chalk train Are these both sentences interchangeable?
- Do they imply the same thing?
- Yes, unless there is some obvious external agent of coercion in the context.
- chalk train What's the point of using the word "having"?
- 'Have to + infinitive' is a semiauxiliary of coercion, compulsion or necessity,
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chalk trainAre these both sentences interchangeable? Do they imply the same thing?
Yes, unless there is some obvious external agent of coercion in the context.
chalk trainWhat's the point of using the word "having"?
'Have to + infinitive' is a semiauxiliary of coercion, compulsion or necessity,
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