Laoiseach
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- Sep 3, 2011
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- Italian
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I've had a test recently, and one of the questions was about the usage of the verb "suggest".
I had to fill in the following sentence:
"Tom suggested ______ a new car."
And the possible answers were:
a) my buying
b) me to buy
c) to buy
d) my buying of
I know that after "suggest" there should be an -ing form, but lot of people I know claim that the correct answer is B. I searched it on Google and it looks like lot of English speaking people do actually use that kind of structure!
So which is the correct answer? I thought it could be D, but I'm not sure. And if it's D, how do you explain the usage of "of"? Maybe you have to use it after transitive verbs?
Thanks in advance for your help!
I had to fill in the following sentence:
"Tom suggested ______ a new car."
And the possible answers were:
a) my buying
b) me to buy
c) to buy
d) my buying of
I know that after "suggest" there should be an -ing form, but lot of people I know claim that the correct answer is B. I searched it on Google and it looks like lot of English speaking people do actually use that kind of structure!
So which is the correct answer? I thought it could be D, but I'm not sure. And if it's D, how do you explain the usage of "of"? Maybe you have to use it after transitive verbs?
Thanks in advance for your help!