I'm a beginner, please someone give me a detailed answer on this one. I'm also a newbie to this site, sorry if this question is supposed to be placed at somewhere else (other tags).
So, here are the sentences:
I want to make my house look/looks more beautiful
I want to make my house to look more beautiful
I want you not to go there
I don't want you to go there
Which one is incorrect?
Best Answer
1) This is using make in the sense to cause something requires either a noun, or a verb without to. For example,
In your sentence, look is the infinitive, and looks is the present simple (3rd person). We want the infinitive, so it is:
2) If you negate a sentence with be in it, you just put not after the verb:
For all other verbs, you put do not in front of the verb:
The main verb in this sentence is want: the correct sentence is therefore
There are circumstances in which one might want to phrase the wanting in a positive way, for example to emphasize the wanting, but then would be more likely to say