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Memoona ali Posted 9 years ago
Grammar
Grammar understanding
Why this is grammatically incorrect:
"Put mobile to charge instead on charge ?
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The verb put doesn't take an infinitive complement. CJ
- The verb put doesn't take an infinitive complement.
- CJ
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"to charge" in "put a mobile to charge" could also be interpreted as preposition + noun, just as in "put a man to work" or "take someone to task". In the context of your question, that is how I understood it. It still doesn't work, but for a different reason: the choice of preposition "to" is not idiomatic in that context. Like much preposition use, this is not very predictable.
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