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Anonymous Posted 12 years ago
Grammar
Catenative
Why is "stopped" in I stopped smoking a catenative and not in I stopped to smoke?
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Because the stopping has nothing directly to do with the smoking. The desire/need to smoke was the reason for stopping (doing) something else.
- Because the stopping has nothing directly to do with the smoking.
- The desire/need to smoke was the reason for stopping (doing) something else.
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Because the stopping has nothing directly to do with the smoking. The desire/need to smoke was the reason for stopping (doing) something else.
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AnonymousWhy is "stopped" in I stopped smoking a catenative and not in I stopped to smoke?Because "to smoke" is an infinitive of purpose in "stopped to smoke". The "to" in an infinitive of purpose can also be expressed as "in order to". I stopped in order to smoke. When a construction has this kind of infinitive, the infinitive does not belon
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