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Anonymous Posted 21 years ago
Grammar
parallelism
Hello,
I came across this sentence recently and would like to know why "to" was used instead of "of" before the second gerund:
"This opens up the possibility of attaching a service to this virtual IP and therefore to making it possible to move this service from one server to another.
With many thanks....
I came across this sentence recently and would like to know why "to" was used instead of "of" before the second gerund:
"This opens up the possibility of attaching a service to this virtual IP and therefore to making it possible to move this service from one server to another.
With many thanks....
Top answer
I think you're right. It is not well-written. But you can't just change the to to of because then it would read-- This opens up the possibility of ...
- I think you're right.
- It is not well-written.
- But you can't just change the to to of because then it would read-- This opens up the possibility of ...
- making it possible...
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I think you're right. It is not well-written. But you can't just change the to to of because then it would read--
This opens up the possibility of ... making it possible...
This opens up the possibility of ... making it possible...
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AnonymousHello,
I came across this sentence recently and would like to know why "to" was used instead of "of" before the second gerund:
"This opens up the possibility of attaching a service to this virtual IP and therefore to making it possible to move this service from one server to another.
With many thanks....
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