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Hans51 Posted 12 years ago
Grammar
'Wish someone to do'
I have learned that 'hope someone to do it' is not grammatically correct but 'hope to do it', 'wish to do it' and 'wish you to do it' is grammatically correct but I have never seen 'wish someone to do it' structure, so is it okay to use it and then does it mean similar to 'want someone to do it'? What do you native English speakers think? Thank you so much in advance.
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Yes, "wish someone to do something" is a fancier way of saying "want someone to do something". To me it feels formal or literary. It is not a phrasing that I would ever use in everyday English, but I would not be surprised to read it in a book.
- Yes, "wish someone to do something" is a fancier way of saying "want someone to do something".
- To me it feels formal or literary.
- It is not a phrasing that I would ever use in everyday English, but I would not be surprised to read it in a book.
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Yes, "wish someone to do something" is a fancier way of saying "want someone to do something". To me it feels formal or literary. It is not a phrasing that I would ever use in everyday English, but I would not be surprised to read it in a book.
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