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What do you think is the correct answer?
I guess it should be C, but if I'm right, I don't understand why it is 'to be complaining' instead of 'to complain'.
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t Bình What do you think is the correct answer? A, but don't capitalise complain. The plain/bare infinitive is needed because of all he does is.
- t Bình What do you think is the correct answer?
- A, but don't capitalise complain.
- The plain/bare infinitive is needed because of all he does is.
- There's a very old Everly Brothers song called All I Have to Do Is Dream, in which dream is a bare infinitive as well.
- Listen to it on YouTube and you'll learn this.
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Nh?t BìnhWhat do you think is the correct answer?
A, but don't capitalise complain. The plain/bare infinitive is needed because of all he does is. There's a very old Everly Brothers song called All I Have to Do Is Dream, in which dream is a bare infinitive as well. Listen to it on YouTube and you'll learn this. ??
0Nh?t BìnhWhat do you think is the correct answer?
A. complain
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0all he does is _______
the only thing he does is _______
what he does is ______
In such structures the base form (more usual) (complain) or the full infinitive (less usual) (to complain) is used ...
... unless it's "doing" (all he is doing is ___, etc.), and then the -ing form is used. (What he's doing is complainin
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