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Usage of “accrue” in “it accrued to me to gently ask” [closed]
A newage hippie Facebook friend just sent me this. I was just wondering if it was syntactically correct,
It accrued to me to gently ask if you could consider extending the same respect, you would ...
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Is a bare infinitive acceptable as the object of a verb? [duplicate]
I came upon the phrase, "writing helps develop a child analytically thinking." Is this grammatically correct? Is it OK to use just develop instead of to develop?
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Use of “conscience” as verb
I’ve heard conscience used as a verb, in the phrase can’t conscience. For example,
I can’t conscience taking credit for what I didn’t do.
Is this use of conscience correct? From a Google search ...
