Hi all,
Thanks in advance for your help in answering this question. I'm trying to explain to a non-native English speaker that a certain usage is either incorrect or awkward, but I find myself unable to do so. At this point, I'm just confusing myself in trying to explain it.
So her construction is:
"I like for you to go to my friend's house in three weeks."
My correction would be:
"I
would like for you to go to my friend's house in three weeks."
My reasoning is that including the word "would" allows for a better logical continuity of tenses. I have tried to explain this via continuity of verb tense and the nature of the conditional word "would"-- but I am not a grammarian and my explanations are either imprecise or wholly inaccurate. On that note,
1) Is my correction correct?
2) Is there a rule which either supports or refutes this correction?
Kind regards,
A.S.