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Instructor1955 Posted 18 years ago
Grammar

Verb Recommend+Infinitive forms

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00While taking some English grammar tests, I have come across this sentence :02br
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01font00"If you don't already have them, we recommend you buy copies of both if you are serious about learning English. "02font01a00 02a02br
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00I know that's grammatically correct, still, Talking with my American colleagues at work,they were all saying the verb recommend is always followed by an infiniteve verb with "TO". For Example :" The Doctor recommended him to loose weight "02br
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00What's your opinion?02br
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00Regards02br
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00The Instructor19550-
  

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02br 00One of my dictionaries (Longman) doesn't mention the structure "recommend someone to do something", but another (Oxford) says that structure is ok. So in the end I have no idea what Americans could say... 0-

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0 Hi,02br
00it's always difficult to remember the right structures for all those verbs, like "recommend", "advise", "suggest", etc.02br
00One of my dictionaries (Longman) doesn't mention the structure "recommend someone to do something", but another (Oxford) says that structure is ok. So in the end I have no idea what Americans could say... 0-
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0Your American colleagues must all speak the same dialect, but the dialect they speak is apparently not the same as mine.05000 What part of the US are your colleagues from?02br
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00- The doctor recommended (that) he lose weight. (01i00lose02i00 = subjunctive)02br
00- The doctor recommended losing weight.02br
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01cite10Instructor195512cite10Talking with my American colleagues at work,they were all saying the verb recommend is always followed by an infiniteve verb with "TO". For Example :" The 11font11del10D12del10d12font10octor recommended him to 11font
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01cite10CalifJim12cite10You can 11u10advise someone to do something12u10, but can neither 11u10recommend12u10 nor 11u10suggest12u10 someone to do something, in my opinion.12blockquote
10Then Longman wins again, and Oxford loses! Interesting... There are a l
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01cite10CalifJim12cite10You can 11u10advise someone to do something12u10, but can neither 11u10recommend12u10 nor 11u10suggest12u10 someone to do something, in my opinion.12blockquote
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0 I thought I'd already posted a reply in this thread. Hmmm, I must have forgotten to hit the 'post' button. At any rate, my reaction was exactly the same as CJ's. However, I've heard a rumor from a handful of Brits that the infinitve version is sometimes used in the UK. I have no idea how widespread it might be, however.02br
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00My East Coast (US) preferences for the
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01cite10Yankee12cite10I thought I'd already posted a reply in this thread. Hmmm, I must have forgotten to hit the 'post' button.12blockquote
10No. You're not going crazy, Yankee! Instructor1955 posted the same question twice. (I wish people would stop doing that -- or if it's a system problem, I wish they'd fi
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0 I see the two threads have now been merged. [Y]02br
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00Kooyeen02br
00The online version of the Cambridge Dictionary apparently agrees with CJ, Avangi and Yankee 05100 05200:02br
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0 Hi!02br
00At work I have Americans from either Western or Eastern states,most of them are college students,selfsupporting their classes serving US military forces.(pretty often there are some Hispanic ones)Exception made for the British ones, we all are bilingual.02br
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00Myself,I was born and raised in one of the largest American community overseas,as a mat
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00In BrE, it is 'recommended that .... should...' 02br
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01b00He recommended02b00 that the committee 01b00should reinvestigate02b00 the case. The employment committee met on 7 June 1972. They decided that the board 01b00should02b00 01b00...02b02br
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