Tuesday, May 16, 2017

sentence construction - "I've been waiting for you for ages." vs "I've been waiting you for ages."


Sometimes using adverbs of time is confusing.


Non-native speakers like me get in a tendency to carry a grammar logic while constructing sentences in order to be better understood.


I know that using two for in the following sentence is correct :


I've been waiting for you for ages.

but it sounds odd to me. I feel like using the below sentence is more accurate:


I've been waiting  you for ages.


Is there an alternative usage in that context?




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