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Newguest Posted 17 years ago
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Is it a good sentence:

How many teaching hours can he count on to get?
  

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It feels awkward to me. "

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It feels awkward to me. I think I would say "getting" in preference to "to get", but actually I would probably just say "How many teaching hours can he count on?"
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NewguestHow many teaching hours can he count on to get?
I agree with Wordy. The gerund is the natural choice.


Google:

"count on to get" 34,800

"count on getting" 189,000


The ones with "to get" are mostly ones where "getting" wouldn't work, like,


"I hire people I can count on to get the job
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