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Danny2312 Posted 15 years ago
Grammar

Is give/Is to give

This is a sentence written by John Lennin. I think it's a lyrics.

Question: "All we are saying is give peace a chance". I wanna know why it's 'give peace a chance' and not 'to give peace a chance'.

Somebody said the word 'to' is often omitted and is now acceptable.

Is it true?

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Thanks in advance.
  

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Danny2312 "All we are saying is give peace a chance". I wanna know why it's 'give peace a chance' and not 'to give peace a chance'. Somebody said the word 'to' is often omitted and is now acceptable.

— CalifJim

  • Danny2312 "All we are saying is give peace a chance".
  • I wanna know why it's 'give peace a chance' and not 'to give peace a chance'.
  • Somebody said the word 'to' is often omitted and is now acceptable.
  • It has nothing to do with omitting "to".
  • It is simply incorrectly punctuated.
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Danny2312"All we are saying is give peace a chance". I wanna know why it's 'give peace a chance' and not 'to give peace a chance'.
Somebody said the word 'to' is often omitted and is now acceptable.
It has nothing to do with omitting "to". It is simply incorrectly punctuated.

All we are saying is "Give peace a chance".

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