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What is the difference between 1. he forbade me to eat sweets at night. and 2. he forbade me from eating sweets at night and 3. he prohibited me to eat sweets at night and 4. he prohibited me from eating sweets at night and he banned me to eat sweets at night ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
What is the difference between 1. he forbade me to eat sweets at night. and 2. he forbade me from eating sweets at night and 3. he prohibited me to eat sweets at night and 4. he prohibited me from eating sweets at night and he banned me to eat sweets at night ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
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2 and 4 have a connotation of "you have eaten sweets at night in the past, and now he has forbidden/prohibited you from doing it again".
the final sentence doesn't make sense, it sounds very unnatural. banned is past tense and "to eat" is infinitive so it sounds odd. it would sound more natural to say "he banned eating sweets at night".
sentence 1 also doesn't sound quite right either, sentence 2 are 4 are the most natural.
sorry, the connotations are quite hard to describe :(
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