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English Grammar
Today's lesson is a new lesson on gerunds and infinitive phrases. As with all examples and exercises in all of our ESL Help! Desk units, the sentences you see below are contributed by other ESL students in college-level ESL classes.
What's wrong with this sentence?
Problem:
My parents made me to practice
the piano every day.
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GERUNDS and INFINITIVES: make, have, let.
Sample:
Use this pattern when the head verb is make, have (as a transitive verb meaning "require"), or let.
My parents made
me practice
the piano every day.
made + object + base form
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