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Amandina
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Help
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Dear teachers,
I am having trouble (thank you for your suggestions, colibrita  ... I was about to use the d-word when I read your post) with the following structure:
I recommend you to go home now. (according to Micheal Swan Practical English Usage)
or
I recommend you go home now.
The second option sound more natural to me, but then I �m not a native speaker. So what do you think?
Thank you for your help!
Kind regards
Amandina
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21 Aug 2010
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franknbea
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Hi Amandina,
You are right. The second option does sound more natural and therefore it is used more commonly than the first, although the first is not incorrect, it just doesn �t roll off the tongue as well.
If I may borrow a phrase from Lindsey; It �s correct English versus common usage. |
21 Aug 2010
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lshorton99
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I would have said exactly the same!
I would only add that both are grammaticaly correct (as is �I recommend that you go home now �) but the first one sounds awful to a native speaker.
Lindsey
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21 Aug 2010
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libertybelle
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You can also say:
I recommend that you go home now.
But............
It really all depends on the situation.
I recommend you to go home now sounds likes a command and
I recommend you go home now sounds more like a suggestion.
But it may be different from culture to culture or even region to region.
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21 Aug 2010
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kodora
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Recommend can be followed by 1.a gerund eg.I recommend visiting the museum
2.an infinitive when you mention the person concerned eg. I recommend you to visit the museum 3. the subjunctive eg. I recommend (that) you visit the museum (more formal)
But you have to be careful when using the subjunctive because the verb following does not take an ending when you want to use he/she/it eg.I recommend he visit the museum.
I hope I have helped you
Dora
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21 Aug 2010
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libertybelle
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Just a little hint - In this case, you would write:
I have a problem. (you �re not in trouble, because you haven �t done anything wrong!)
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21 Aug 2010
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lshorton99
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Dora
We were just discussing that, while your second example - I recommend you to visit the museum - is grammatically correct, it doesn �t sound natural to most native speakers!
Lindsey
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21 Aug 2010
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kodora
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I can �t have an opinion on that since I �m not a native speaker.What I wrote is based on
A Practical English Grammar by Thomson and Martinet.
Dora
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21 Aug 2010
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franknbea
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Ahhhhh!
The beauty of the English language.
Isn �t that the reason that most of us teach it?
There can �t be another language like it, can there? |
21 Aug 2010
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Amandina
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Thanks to all of you! You �re simply the best! 
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21 Aug 2010
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