Are these sentences natural? October 25

[musicgold]

Hi,

Are the following sentences natural to a native ear?

1. I don’t want you to feel to be left out.

2. We are running late of time.

3. The objective of my speech was to convince them to getting around to seeing our point of view.

Thanks,
MG.

[Alamshar]

I'm afraid they're not quite correct

1. I don't want you to feel left out (there´s no need for "to be" -in fact you never put 2 infinitives like this together with "to")

2. You have a few options here:
We are running out of time
We are running late (we don´t add "on time" as it's unnecessary and does not sound natural)
We are running short on time

3. The objective of my speech was to bring them round to our point of view
The objective of my speech was to persuade them to see it our way.

Your version is too long and is actually incorrect. "to get around to something" means "to find the time to do something". e.g. I meant to call you last week but I just didn't get round to it.

Hope this helps

[emsr2d2]

"1. in fact you never put 2 infinitives like this together with "to")"

That's not strictly true but it's an unusual construction. We can say "I don't want you to want to be cold" or "I wouldn't encourage you to try to be the most annoying person in the room".

[KarriBlanchard]

"I don’t want you to feel to be left out." I would write as "I don't want you to feel left out"

[musicgold]

Thanks folks.