Please note my corrections to your post — especially the way to ask your question.He found the courage to go outside because he needed to eat/eating. [No spaces around the slash.]
Which form of 'eat' should be used in this sentence? And why? Or are both of them [STRIKE]is[/STRIKE] possible?
Hi,
He found the courage to go outside because he needed to eat / eating.
Which form of 'eat' should be used in this sentence? And why? Or both of them is possible.
Thank you.
Can we say 'He' is the patient of 'eating' in 'He needed eating'?
...It may not be logical, but that's the message the words convey, which is why 'eating' is the incorrect form.
...which seems to be the lesson you are trying to teach me despite my having demonstrated and used this very thing....which is to say, he needed to be eaten.