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JungKim Posted 11 years ago
Grammar
omitting 'to'
Here's what Steve Jobs said (as shown in this link):
The iPod Nano has been super popular, what can we do? Well... We'll like to make it smaller and we'll like to make it better. Well to make it smaller there's only one way to do that, and that's to eliminate the click wheel. And there's only one way to eliminate the click wheel which is to make it touch based.
There's two instances of to-infinitive that were boldfaced.
Is either of these, is "to" omissible?
The iPod Nano has been super popular, what can we do? Well... We'll like to make it smaller and we'll like to make it better. Well to make it smaller there's only one way to do that, and that's to eliminate the click wheel. And there's only one way to eliminate the click wheel which is to make it touch based.
There's two instances of to-infinitive that were boldfaced.
Is either of these, is "to" omissible?
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JungKim Is In either of these, is "to" omissible? Yes, in both cases, but that's very casual speech, to the point of being almost sloppy. CJ
- JungKim Is In either of these, is "to" omissible?
- Yes, in both cases, but that's very casual speech, to the point of being almost sloppy.
- CJ
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JungKimYes, in both cases, but that's very casual speech, to the point of being almost sloppy.IsIn either of these, is "to" omissible?
CJ
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