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Hans51 Posted 12 years ago
Grammar
'one's mind to do'
"Coach Hong Myung-bo finally changed his mind to put Kim Shin-wook as the lone striker in his line-up and even replaced goalkeeper Jung Sung-ryong with Kim Seung-gyu."
I have found this sentence in an article and two players actually was put in the game for the first time and then there the to infinitive "to put..." is used as the infinitive of result like "I want to live to be a hundred"?But as far as I know, one's mind and to infinitives are usually used like I changed my mind to travel with you and here my mind is equal to to travel with you like my mind = to travel, right?
Or can we infer three infinitive usages from "change one's mind to do something" like
I changed my mind to meet you like I am here to meet you ( adverb and purpose )
I changed my mind to meet you ( apposition and equals )
He finally changed his mind to put Kim Shin-wook as the lone striker in his line-up ( as a result of changing his mind, he put the player in the starting member)
So should we distinguish which one it means in context or only apposition usage is possible?
What do you native English speakers think? Thank you so much as usual in advance.
I have found this sentence in an article and two players actually was put in the game for the first time and then there the to infinitive "to put..." is used as the infinitive of result like "I want to live to be a hundred"?But as far as I know, one's mind and to infinitives are usually used like I changed my mind to travel with you and here my mind is equal to to travel with you like my mind = to travel, right?
Or can we infer three infinitive usages from "change one's mind to do something" like
I changed my mind to meet you like I am here to meet you ( adverb and purpose )
I changed my mind to meet you ( apposition and equals )
He finally changed his mind to put Kim Shin-wook as the lone striker in his line-up ( as a result of changing his mind, he put the player in the starting member)
So should we distinguish which one it means in context or only apposition usage is possible?
What do you native English speakers think? Thank you so much as usual in advance.
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Hans51 changed his mind to put That is not an accepted structure. 'to' => ' and '
- Hans51 changed his mind to put That is not an accepted structure.
- 'to' => ' and '
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Hans51changed his mind to putThat is not an accepted structure.
'to' => 'and'
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"change one's mind to do something" is not a good phrase
"Coach Hong Myung-bo finally changed his mind to put Kim Shin-wook as the lone striker" -- I would say "changed his mind and put ...".
"I changed my mind to travel with you" and "I changed my mind to meet you" are unclear and not viable.
"Coach Hong Myung-bo finally changed his mind to put Kim Shin-wook as the lone striker" -- I would say "changed his mind and put ...".
"I changed my mind to travel with you" and "I changed my mind to meet you" are unclear and not viable.
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Thank you so much! Without you great people, I would get lost so often.
But "make up one's mind to do something" is a good phrase li
But "make up one's mind to do something" is a good phrase li00
Hans51Thank you so much! Without you great people, I would get lost so often. But "make up one's mind to do something" is a good phrase like I've made up my mind to go back to school and here my mind is equal to to go back to school like my mind = to go back school, right? What do you think? Thank you so much!Yes, that's a good phrase, but the explanation "my
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