Grammatical Difference

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Hi! What is the grammatical difference of the below sentences? The meaning is the same. Thank, Fulvio1. It is important that you walk your dog.2. It is important to walk your dog.

Englishmaven · Accepted Answer

The first sentence has two clauses; the second sentence has one clause.

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Hi! What is the grammatical difference of the below sentences? The meaning is the same. Thank, Fulvio
1. It is important that you walk your dog.
2. It is important to walk your dog.

You can even add

It is important for you to walk your dog,

which is a variant of 2.

It's a matter of which clause is transferred from the subject position to the end and replaced by "it".

That you walk your dog is important.
(For you) to walk your dog is important.

In the first case the clause is finite; in the second, non-finite. Both of these embedded structures have the same subject and predicate: you; walk your dog.

CJ

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