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could you analyze the grammar of this sentence for me?"h does not like to here me play"
Mar 10, 2015 7:57 AM
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Do you mean "He does not like to hear me play?" e.g. when you play the violin and your friend cannot tolerate the noise?
Normally, the second verb would be in the gerund - ing and the gerund form would also work in this case. "Hear" is an unusual verb as it can be followed by another verb in the base form like "play". I don't think there is any great reason for it - I think it's just an oddity of the language.
March 10, 2015
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Hi Hadiahmadi,
Please, be careful when typing. Your errors made us misunderstand you.
"He doesn't like to hear me play." This is the actual quote and, grammatically, it's not as difficult as it seems.
"Hear what?" or, in this case, "hear who?" Hear me.
"Hear me do what?" is the next question. It's fine to use the base verb here. If you used a participle (playing), I'd want to know what the person would be playing.
I hope that helps a bit.
March 10, 2015
yes.thank you michael at first I should say tat that was a typing errors.hear is correct.the sentence
was from little woman short story from oxford press.I have 2 problem with this sentence.one of them is usage of me and one of them is play.
March 10, 2015
It is "He doesn't want me to play here".
March 10, 2015
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