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Sun 94 Posted 15 years ago
Grammar
Is to learn or is learning?
My question is if I can use ' learning' instead of ' to learn' in the following sentence because I think both verbing and to verb root can be used as a complement. What do you think?
One of his life-long goals is to learn to speak Chinese fluently.
One of his life-long goals is learning to speak Chinese flunetly
One of his life-long goals is to learn to speak Chinese fluently.
One of his life-long goals is learning to speak Chinese flunetly
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Yes, you can, but the infinitive sounds better since it expresses potentiality.
- Yes, you can, but the infinitive sounds better since it expresses potentiality.
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Yes, you can, but the infinitive sounds better since it expresses potentiality.
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