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EXPECT/TELL/WANT/ASK/OFFER
In Dutch you say:
I expect that you do it.
I want that you …
I tell that you …
I offered that he …..
I asked …..
In English you CANNOT say it this way. You cannot use THAT in those sentences.
You have to say:
I expect you to do it.
I want you to go home now.
I told him to stay home.
I offered him to stay with us.
I asked him to help me.
Pieter Groen
Year 3
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