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Ing form or infinitive?
Message from raffa971 posted on 27-09-2009 at 11:58:24 (D | E | F)
Hello,
When do I use the verb allow followed by the ing form and when by the infinitive?
example:
her father allowed her to take his car...
he allowed taking the car.
Thank you!!!

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Edited by lucile83 on 27-09-2009 12:02

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Re: Ing form or infinitive? from lucile83, posted on 27-09-2009 at 12:08:44 (D | E)
Hello,
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In your examples I would say :
her father allowed her to take his car
Best wishes.

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Re: Ing form or infinitive? from cecil_ward, posted on 05-11-2009 at 17:48:10 (D | E)
Unfortunately you just have to take each case individually.


For example
You must go.
*You must go.
You need to go.
?You need go. (note 1)
You want to go
*You want go

Do you mind going
*Do you mind go
*Do you mind to go


The ones marked * are ungrammatical. So unfortunately you have to just look it up in each case. There's no obvious rule.

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note 1: restricted to archaic, poetic usage, and certain old established phrases involving "you need go no" as in "you need go no further" (archaic)

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Re: Ing form or infinitive? from taconnet, posted on 06-11-2009 at 19:08:37 (D | E)
Hello.

However, I'd like to add that some verbs can be followed by either -ing forms or infinitives.
Particularly the verbs advise, allow, permit and forbid.
After these verbs, we use an -ing form if there is no object. If there is an object we use an infinitive.

I wouldn't advise taking the car - there's nowhere to park.
I wouldn't advise you to take the car - there's nowhere to park.

We don't allow/permit people to smoke in the lecture room.
We don't allow/permit smoking in the lecture room.

Hence you can say :
« My father allowed taking his car.»

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Re: Ing form or infinitive? from cecil_ward, posted on 17-11-2009 at 17:15:36 (D | E)
No. That is totally wrong.
Unfortunately
*my father allowed taking his car

is completely ungrammatical. (I'm a native speaker. :-) )

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Re: Ing form or infinitive? from cecil_ward, posted on 17-11-2009 at 17:17:16 (D | E)
You simply can not make generalizations like this, unfortunately.

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