AI Tutor - Lucy
Build ESL Medium confidence with English for requests, instructions, and encouragement, using natural language to guide, support, and respond clearly in everyday situations.
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British English prefers to 'go and see ...' (a bit like 'wait and see').
Otherwise the shape of this sentence is much the same as the earlier example/s. |
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Still the same overall shape ... we hope you are getting the idea clearly by now!
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[ Subject + communicative verb + object + infinitive of action ]
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Again, the same order.
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Nobody can 'whisper a person', so they have to 'whisper to them', and that person is therefore an Indirect Object. (The Direct Object, if given, would be the actual words spoken: 'She whispered three words [Direct Object] to him [Indirect Object] ... '.
So in this case, there are two 'to's': ' ... to him, to do ... '. |
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' ... writing [a letter] to you, 'to tell you ... '
English does not need a 'for' (as in Answer 4) to express purpose; the infinitive with 'to' is fully adequate. |
This sentence is still in the same overall shape as all the others.
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It is alternatively possible to say, 'We (do not) expect that they succeed'; but this is a different structure. The one we have been practising does just as good a job, and by now you should be fairly familiar and comfortable with it.
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Let's hope nobody else caught the disease!
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English does not need to say 'asking/inviting TO us'; there's already a 'to' coming up in the infinitive of the verb that we're being invited to do ... and two 'to's' are too many!