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HyunWoo Jo Posted 12 years ago
Grammar

Is this sentence has an error?

We had a great time to play hide and seek in the woods.
  

Top answer

We had a great time playing hide-and-seek in the woods.

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We had a great time playing hide-and-seek in the woods.
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Thank you for the answer! But would you explain it more? Why should it be 'playing' instead of 'to play'?
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HyunWoo Jo Is this sentence has an error? Does this sentence have an error?
As shown above.

CJ
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My bad. I even made a mistake on my question! Thank you for pointing that out.
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HyunWoo JoMy bad.
And it is not a good idea to attempt slang until your standard English improves.
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Oh, I didn't know about that. I'll not use it! Thank you!
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HyunWoo JoWhy should it be 'playing' instead of 'to play'?
There are a number of expressions and verbs that are followed by the -ing form of a verb. There seems to be no rule that allows us to determine which expressions and verbs are like this, so we just learn them one at a time as we come across them.

Here are some examples:

to hav
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Thank you for the explanation. It helps me a lot to understand the problem!
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"my bad" is not a slang tho, every non-native English speaker i know uses it
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boomkack"my bad" is not a slang tho, every non-native English speaker i know uses it
"My bad" is slang for now. Maybe some day it will be accepted as standard English, but at this time it is still considered slang.

CJ
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