Hi A-stars, That's interesting. In my idiolect, it's normal to say My father hates me to play a video game. but it's not considered good English to say My father hates for me to play a video game. I wonder if this is

To me, infinitive of purpose would be something like, "He married an American to learn English." "She went to do the laundry." I'm not really into the theory of this stuff, but "to learn" seems like a bad example

He spent a lot of time to learn English. Hi, CB. My good ol' instinct is letting me down here. I'd say, "He spent a lot of time learning English." NOT "He spent a lot of time to learn English." "It took him a long

Many Americans do pronounce gerund verb forms as you noticed. It seems to be a regional trait, with Americans from some regions using more careful pronunciation. It is also sometimes situation specific (most people will enunciate better when

When I listen to americans talking, I always notice that in the end of the gerund verb form they pronounce a (at least in some contexts). So, for example, "She is talking about me" becomes "she is talki n about me" and

What about: "I heard his saying that ..."? Here, the word saying changes from a present partciple (PP) of the infinitive "to say" to a gerund (verb > noun) as evidenced by the possesive adjective "his"

Hey Eva, I have never heard a single college graduate in the USA assert that their culture, language, literature and general national attitude outshines that of any other nature great and small. The closest thing I've seen to it was this one

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In this example, yes. In the general case, no. I ... while complaining about verbs, and that's what I'm bitching about. A gerund is a verbal, and that's what Andy obviously meant, and I think everybody understood the point, so

Consider: "The ugly small round old blue French plastic shopping bag" I know, I know - never use THAT many adjectives! Tell that to the instructor who gave it to us as group task for discussion and result presentation! 'E ain't