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Messier42 Posted 12 years ago
Vocabulary

Only to

We tried to run calibrations only to fail with an error.
Did I use "only to" correctly?
  

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It seems to be a correct usage here.

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  • It seems to be a correct usage here.
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It seems to be a correct usage here.
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messier42 We tried to run calibrations only to fail with an error.Did I use "only to" correctly?
More or less correctly. The problem is that the main clause should set up a situation in which the result in the only to clause is unexpected. Is a failure really so very unexpected when you run calibrations? I would have said no, but then I don't
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