Use of conditional verb prior to an infinitive clause / object complement

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Anonymous  #537160  Sat, 05 Jul 08 11:17 PM
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.
  
Marius Hancu  #537168  Sat, 05 Jul 08 11:47 PM
 Your sentence is more  polite and as a result much more frequent:

 607 on "I would like for you to go"

 http://books.google.com/books?q=%22I+would+like+for+you+to+go%22&btnG=Search+Books

 233 on "I'd like for you to go"

 http://books.google.com/books?q=%22I%27d+like+for+you+to+go%22&btnG=Search+Books

 3 on "I like for you to go"

 Forget about your other considerations, they're not quite valid.

  
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