Timeline for I hope I will have you enjoying this lecture
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| Oct 7, 2014 at 22:18 | answer | added | rhetorician | timeline score: 1 | |
| Oct 6, 2014 at 19:29 | comment | added | Calphool | Your sentence "I hope I will have you enjoying this lecture." actually makes sense, but it's just awkward. For example, if a comedian said "I hope I will have you all laughing at my jokes." it's perfectly acceptable, and not awkward. I think perhaps the issue is the word "enjoying". "Enjoying" is an internal state of mind, whereas laughing is an externally visible effect. If I say "I hope I will have you relaxing after this massage", it's a similarly awkward sentence. You can't control my internal state of relaxation / excitation. I control that. | |
| Oct 4, 2014 at 19:52 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | 'Have someone Ving [ ... ]' seems to work only with action or 'near-action' verbs. 'He had them all working hard / trying their best / singing their hearts out / complaining / thinking / laughing / smiling / looking happy' but not really 'He had them all feeling happy / looking miserable and certainly not 'He had them all being angry / becoming bored'. | |
| Oct 4, 2014 at 19:08 | comment | added | Janus Bahs Jacquet | Really good question. Your sentence is awkward, and the one in the OD is perfectly natural. There is something about the irrealis future in your clause that doesn’t work with enjoy, but it’s hard to really put your finger on what it is. | |
| Oct 4, 2014 at 19:07 | comment | added | anongoodnurse | This question was posted only 5 hours ago on ELL. per Meta.SE, if you do not get a satisfactory answer on one site, please ask a moderator to migrate your question rather than posting on multiple sites. | |
| Oct 4, 2014 at 19:00 | history | asked | bart-leby | CC BY-SA 3.0 |