ask for

[navi]

Can one use:
1) I am asking for you to help me.
instead of:
2) I am asking you to help me.

Could one mean anything other than '2'?



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Gratefully,
Navi


Lost in the Twilight Zone of the English language
Obsessed with ambiguity
Interested in strange structures

[Hibou]

Post by navi
1) I am asking for you to help me.
2) I am asking you to help me.

I wouldn't. (2) is indirect and rather clumsy. One could say:

I am asking for your help.

Post by navi
Could one mean anything other than '2'?

[Hibou]

Post by navi
1) I am asking for you to help me.
2) I am asking you to help me.

Correction: not (2), (1).

  I am asking for your help.

Post by navi
Could one mean anything other than '2'?

[jerryfriedman]

Post by navi
1) I am asking for you to help me.
2) I am asking you to help me.

People do, but rarely, and as Hibou said, it's bad
style.

Post by navi
Could one mean anything other than '2'?

(A sentence that could have been written "Could '1' mean
anything other than '2'?" with hardly any change in
meaning.)

I don't think so.

--
Jerry Friedman