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"He maintains to judge people fairly."
"He maintains living a lavish life."

Is this correct use of maintain?
 

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"He maintains to judge people fairly."
"He maintains living a lavish life."

Is this correct use of maintain?

The first sentence is not correct and I'm not sure what you mean.
The second sentence should read "He maintains a lavish lifestyle".
 

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I wrote the first sentence:

"He maintains to judge people fairly."

to mean: "He claims to judge people fairly" or "He urges everyone to judge people fairly."



For the second sentence, the patterns:

"to maintain [verb]-ing" or "to maintain to [verb]"

don't mean:

"to continue [verb]-ing" or "to continue to [verb]"?
 

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You are misunderstanding the meanings of 'maintain'.

'He maintains that people should be judged fairly' means 'He asserts/holds the opinion that people should be judged fairly'.

'To maintain' does not mean 'to continue'.

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Or "He maintains that he judges people fairly".
 

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