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Unread Jun 15th, 2008, 05:01 am
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Default Our customer demanded we / asked us to

Any idea why we can't say:

"Our customers demanded us to send the packages by Friday."

I was teaching an advanced business class and looking some of their emails. Two people came up with the above formation and "They requested us to send a packaging slip."

Why can't we use the formation associated with 'ask'
"asked us to send a packaging slip."
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