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Belly Posted 18 years ago
Grammar

1) In the end I had to get a lift with a colleague

1) In the end I had to get a lift with a colleague

-> What I did in the end was get a lift with a colleague

Question: Why can't we use to get or getting here but get?

2)I tried every key but not___ fitted

a) any

b) one

The answer is b yet I think a is acceptable. How come we don't choose a but b?

3) Should your information ____ out to be true

a) turn

b) turns

I think b is the correct one, isn't it?
  

Top answer

Hi Belly 1) You could use to get as well. Both the full infinitive (to get) and the plain/bare infintive (get) are correct after do in sentences like yours. There is an old song All I Have To Do Is Dream.

— Cool Breeze

  • Hi Belly 1) You could use to get as well.
  • Both the full infinitive (to get) and the plain/bare infintive (get) are correct after do in sentences like yours.
  • There is an old song All I Have To Do Is Dream.
  • It could just as well be All I Have To Do Is To Dream.
  • 2) Not [a single] one is idiomatic and grammatical.
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Hi Belly

1) You could use to get as well. Both the full infinitive (to get) and the plain/bare infintive (get) are correct after do in sentences like yours. There is an old song All I Have To Do Is Dream. It could just as well be All I Have To Do Is To Dream.

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Hi, could you tell me in sentence 1, which structure is that? And can we use gerund here?
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BellyHi, could you tell me in sentence 1, which structure is that? And can we use gerund here?
No gerund. Get is an infinitive, as I said.

CB
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Hm... But what kind of structure is that?
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What I did in the end was get a lift with a colleague.

<< What kind of structure is that? >>

It's called a "pseudo cleft with do".

See .
See .

CJ
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Cool BreezeHi Belly

1) You could use to get as well. Both the full infinitive (to get) and the plain/bare infintive (get) are correct after do in sentences like yours. There is an old song All I Have To Do Is Dream. It could just as well be All I Have To Do
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BellyHi CB, so we musn't to add not before any if it is a subject, how about just any? Ex: Anyone could do that!
Correct.

CB
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>Hi CB, so we musn't to add not before any if it is a subject, how about just any?

mustn't add
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