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Bookmark or Share- How can I apologize and promise that a mistake won't happen again?Steve's suggestion is the best, but if you want to apologise in a more formal way, then: I deeply regret what occurred, and I promise that I will make every effort and do everything in my power to prevent its reoccurrence. (Very formal)
- objects - 'Make it happen' or 'make it happens' - English Language ...Make happen is not a phrasal verb. Happen is never transitive. Happen is not an adjective, it's a non-finite verb: Make it very beautiful or Make it more beautiful, but not *Make it very happen or *Make it more happen. What is unusual with make is that it takes a bare infinitival clause as a complement; to-infinitival clauses are more common. –
- verb agreement - Should I use "happen" or "happens"? - English Language ...Should I use happen or happens in the following sentence: Everything in life, even events that seem insignificant when they occur, happens/happen for a reason. I am confused because everything is singular, but events is plural.
- What does "fetch" and "stop trying to make 'fetch' happen" mean?In this context one of the girls was trying to introduce 'Fetch' as an adjective - equivalent perhaps to how we say something is 'cool'. Another of the "Mean Girl's" tells her "Fetch isn't going to happen" meaning "You will not get people to introduce Fetch as an adjective". It makes absolutely no sense without the contextual reference.
- Is this "helped + make" combination a form of subjunctive?No, it's not subjunctive. "Help" is catenative verb and the subordinate infinitival clause "make Warren Buffett a billionaire" is catenative complement of "help". "Help" is one of a few verbs that can take bare infinitivals like "make" or to infinitivals like "to make" –
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