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Milky Posted 20 years ago
Grammar

Referencing

I don't like to eat spicy food

I don't like it either.

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Does the "it" refer to "spicy food" or to "to eat spicy food", IYO?
  

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Hello Milky I would say it amounted to the same thing, since "food" is a cognate object here. Thus "like to eat spicy food" effectively = "like spicy food". Cf.

— MrPedantic

  • Hello Milky I would say it amounted to the same thing, since "food" is a cognate object here.
  • Thus "like to eat spicy food" effectively = "like spicy food".
  • Cf.
  • 1.
  • " Here, "it" refers to "catching the bus".
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Hello Milky

I would say it amounted to the same thing, since "food" is a cognate object here. Thus "like to eat spicy food" effectively = "like spicy food".

Cf.

1. "I don't like catching the bus." "I don't like it either."

Here, "it" refers to "catching the bus". It would be accounted strange to intend it as a reference to the bus itself.

2. "I don't l
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I find the response anomalous. It should be one of the two shown below.

I don't like to eat spicy food.

I don't like to either.
I don't like to eat it either.

CJ
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