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Farooq Abbasi Posted 12 years ago
Grammar

gerunds

"Contribution benchmarking could make to 'improving' the position of Daleen Foods".
In the above sentence why aren't we using 'to improve' instead? Why are we using gerund instead? Kindly explain it.
  

Top answer

The sentence is not grammatical.

— GPY

  • The sentence is not grammatical.
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8 Answers
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The sentence is not grammatical.
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Th use of 'make to' seems meaningless here.
I wonder if the writer simply means this?
Contribution benchmarking could improve the position of Daleen Foods.
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Sir how come it is not grammatical. It is from my text book's line.
I just can't understand "to" here.
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No, here contribution is a different word. It means 'benefits' here.
I just can't understand "to -ing" here.
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Looking again, I wonder whether this is a sentence fragment; for example,

"Blah blah ... the contribution (that) benchmarking could make to 'improving' the position of Daleen Foods".

Farooq, please post the whole sentence, and any surrounding context that seems important to the understanding.
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GPY this is a separate sentence. Actually it is the main point that the text is discussing here about the company. Again this is a separate point.
I am only confused here about the GRAMMAR of "to plus -ing" here not the whole text or sentence.
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Farooq Abbasihow come it is not grammatical?
There is no word in the sentence that admits a to preposition phrase. As a modifier, contribution can’t take a to phrase, but it can in a context such as the one GPY suggested.
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Farooq AbbasiI am only confused here about the GRAMMAR of "to plus -ing" here not the whole text or sentence.
It is hard to explain the grammar when the sentence is ungrammatical!

In another context, "improving the position of Daleen Foods" could be a noun phrase, and could be the object of the preposition "to".
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