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Byron Posted 21 years ago
Grammar
"what we will do is to go..." OR "what we will do is go..."
Which of the two is correct:
What we will do is go over the last two lessons...
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What we will do is to go over the last two lessons...
What we will do is go over the last two lessons...
OR
What we will do is to go over the last two lessons...
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in my opinion, the first one is WRONG, the second one is OK, (correction made here ;-) best wishes, ps. I'm wondering if another variation would be possible (apart from these ones above) : /What we will do is that we will go over the last two lessons/
- in my opinion, the first one is WRONG, the second one is OK, (correction made here ;-) best wishes, ps.
- I'm wondering if another variation would be possible (apart from these ones above) : /What we will do is that we will go over the last two lessons/
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in my opinion, the first one is WRONG, the second one is OK, (correction made here ;-)
best wishes,
ps. I'm wondering if another variation would be possible (apart from these ones above) : /What we will do is that we will go over the last two lessons/
best wishes,
ps. I'm wondering if another variation would be possible (apart from these ones above) : /What we will do is that we will go over the last two lessons/
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Thanks for the opinion, but I was really looking for some arguments and discussion.
I see the version with to very often.
I see the version with to very often.
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I don't know... Most of the sentences I've just checked with google.com are without "to" but there are some that have "to" (but only a few)
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Personally, I think "what we will do is go over the last two lessons" sounds fine. I'd like to hear some other opinions.
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I prefer the first version, e.g.
1. What we'll do now is go over the last two lessons.
The 'go over' is a bare infinitive because it relates back to the modal 'will':
2. What shall we do now? (We'll) go over the last two lessons.
MrP
1. What we'll do now is go over the last two lessons.
The 'go over' is a bare infinitive because it relates back to the modal 'will':
2. What shall we do now? (We'll) go over the last two lessons.
MrP
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Hello Byron
We had a similar talk before, but I failed to find the thread. As long as I remember, I learned then was that we can leave out <to> from to-infinitive phrase when a sentence form is <do/did is/was to do something>. Examples are like below.
What they had to do then was (to) rescue the flood victims.
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We had a similar talk before, but I failed to find the thread. As long as I remember, I learned then was that we can leave out <to> from to-infinitive phrase when a sentence form is <do/did is/was to do something>. Examples are like below.
What they had to do then was (to) rescue the flood victims.
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