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Lucas21c Posted 14 years ago
Grammar

Infinitive

Presenters should find some interesting clues to pull audience into their speech before making a preasentation.

Could you tell me whether the above sentence is fine as it is? Or shoud I replace "to pull" with "in order to pull?"
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lucas21c Presenters should find some interesting clues to pull audience into their speech before making a preasentation. "to pull" is better. "clues" seems strange.

— CalifJim

  • lucas21c Presenters should find some interesting clues to pull audience into their speech before making a preasentation.
  • "to pull" is better.
  • "clues" seems strange.
  • Do you mean "ways"?
  • Presenters should find some interesting ways to pull the audience into their speech before making a presentation.
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lucas21cPresenters should find some interesting clues to pull audience into their speech before making a preasentation.
"to pull" is better.
"clues" seems strange. Do you mean "ways"?

Presenters should find some interesting ways to pull the audience into their speech before making a presentation.
Before making a presentation, presenters shou
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And 'draw' might be a more common alternative to 'pull'.
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Mister Micawber'draw' ... alternative
Yes. I think 'draw' is better than 'pull' there.

CJ
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