In one story I read this:
... "The face of Hyde sat heavily on his memory. He felt
(what was rare to him) a nausea and distaste of life, and
in the gloom of his spirits, he seemed to read a menace
in the flickering of the firelight on the polished
cabinets and the uneasy starting of the shadow on the
roof."
I saw a strange using of the Infinitive:
...in the gloom of his spirits, he seemed TO READ a
menace in the flickering of the firelight...
What would happen if I put it without TO:
...in the gloom of his spirits, he seemed READ a menace
in the flickering of the firelight...
Can I use "using" without an article ("I saw strange
using...")?
"He seemed read a menace in the flicker of theIn my case "the other" was not a "bare infinite" -- the
firelight"
first one is in Past Simple(seemed) and other is also in
Past simple (read).
Is your English parser is also a spell checker?
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