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Sesquipedalian101 Posted 14 years ago
Grammar

Want Vs Wanting

1. Thanks for being so gracious as to wanting to pass us the soft copy of the lecture that we had had last Friday.

2. Thanks for being so gracious as to want to pass us the soft copy of the lecture that we had had last Friday.

Are both the above sentences grammatical and idiomatic? If so, is there any difference between them?
  

Top answer

Both are unnatural to native speakers. At a minimum you would need to remove want/wanting. It's still not the way a native speaker would make a polite request.

— Shawn79

  • Both are unnatural to native speakers.
  • At a minimum you would need to remove want/wanting.
  • It's still not the way a native speaker would make a polite request.
  • A more common way is: Would you please give us the soft copy of the lecture we had last Friday?
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Both are unnatural to native speakers. At a minimum you would need to remove want/wanting. It's still not the way a native speaker would make a polite request. A more common way is:

Would you please give us the soft copy of the lecture we had last Friday?
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