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Thang Tran Posted 14 years ago
Grammar

"in" and "to" in those 2 sentences ?

I am wondering why in the sentence "There's no point in doing that" people use the preposition "in" but in "There's no reason to do that" people use the infinitive marker "to" ?
  

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Welcome Thang Tran to the forum, Thang Tran "There's no point in doing that" They are both idiomatic correct. One would be more likely to use this one to suggest that no matter what the attempt and effort, the outsome is the same. Thang Tran "There's no reason to do that" One would say this in situations where someone may, or could do something against normal logic and sound judgement; for example: There is no reason for anyone to get behind the steering wheel after having a few drink.

— Grammarfreak

  • Welcome Thang Tran to the forum, Thang Tran "There's no point in doing that" They are both idiomatic correct.
  • One would be more likely to use this one to suggest that no matter what the attempt and effort, the outsome is the same.
  • Thang Tran "There's no reason to do that" One would say this in situations where someone may, or could do something against normal logic and sound judgement; for example: There is no reason for anyone to get behind the steering wheel after having a few drink.
  • There is no reason to bring this heavy jacket.
  • It is 85 degrees outside.
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Welcome Thang Tran to the forum,
Thang Tran"There's no point in doing that"
They are both idiomatic correct. One would be more likely to use this one to suggest that no matter what the attempt and effort, the outsome is the same.
Thang Tran "There's no reason to do that"
One would say this in situa
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Thanks grammarfreak, btw can we say "There's no point to do that" and "There's no reason in doing that" ?
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Thang TranThanks grammarfreak, btw can we say "There's no point to do that" and "There's no reason in doing that" ?
Can we say that? Of course we can but it is not idiomatic, nor it is standard English.

no point in - Idioms and phrases - The Free Dictionary

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Thang Tran"There's no point to do that" and "There's no reason in doing that" ?
No and no. We follow fixed grammatical patterns that depend on the exact words. The word 'point' doesn't work the same as the word 'reason'. There is no logic. It's arbitrary.

CJ
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