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What is the difference between recommend to me to and recommend me to and recommend me +verb ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
What is the difference between recommend to me to and recommend me to and recommend me +verb ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
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Recommend is a suggestion to do something.
He recommended to me that I eat more vegetables.
He recommended me to eat more vegetables.
He recommended a book to me.
Notice the order here.
"Recommend to me to" is not how it would be used in speech, because it is often "recommend me to +verb"
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- English (US)
Recommend is a suggestion to do something.
He recommended to me that I eat more vegetables.
He recommended me to eat more vegetables.
He recommended a book to me.
Notice the order here.
"Recommend to me to" is not how it would be used in speech, because it is often "recommend me to +verb"
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@SelfSimilarJosh what is the difference between “He recommended that I eat more vegetables” and “He recommended that I have to eat more vegetables”???
- English (US)
@Joe188 They are exactly the same here. The sentences are only to show the two ways that the phrase can be built, and that we don't use "recommended to me to".
"To" is present too many times, even though it is technically grammatically correct. Good English writing often takes care of having prepositions only where necessary. Too many prepositions makes a confusion sentence.
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in English if you have a transitive verb (like "recommend"), it has a subject/actor, a verb/action, a direct object/thing acted upon, and an indirect object/thing benefitting from the action.
if "I" (Subject) recommend (Verb) "a food" (Direct Object) to "you" (Indirect Object), notice the "to". only once, because the D.O. "a food" is a noun (sometimes a pronoun works here similarly).
you can also change the order from
S-V-DO-IO
to S-V-IO-DO
and in that order, remove the "to".
so it becomes
"I recommend you a food".
changing the DO from a noun to an infinitive verb, such to "eat" or "leave" would add another "to", which makes it awkward because of the repetition.
so a compromise might be
"i recommend you leave" (S-V-IO-DO),
"i recommend you eat".
or you stick a "that" in there, where the that stands in place of the DO.
SO, "I recommend that you leave", "i recommend that you eat".
or change the infinitive verb back to a noun by using a Gerund form.
"i recommend you leaving", "i recommend you eating".
any clearer?
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@cornucopiadm1 I like the gerund form you brought up. Great explanation and examples.
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