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Anonymous Posted 14 years ago
Grammar
Which one of these sentences is correct?
She would have liked that he won the prize.
She would have liked that he had won the prize.
Thank you very much for your precious help.
She would have liked that he had won the prize.
Thank you very much for your precious help.
Top answer
Neither. She would have liked him to win the prize
- Neither.
- She would have liked him to win the prize
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Why is that?
I mean "that he won the prize" is the object of the verb, right? Some people told me it was correct.
I mean "that he won the prize" is the object of the verb, right? Some people told me it was correct.
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"For himself, he would have liked that they should all live together till Seth was married, and they might have built a bit themselves to the old house, and made more room."
Doesn't this quote prove otherwise?
Doesn't this quote prove otherwise?
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AnonymousDoesn't this quote prove otherwise?Hard to say. Who wrote it and when? That construction is extremely rare and formal in modern English, almost to the point of being strange to hear.
Much more idiomatic:
He would have liked them all to live together ...
CJ
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