resolve to do sth and on doing sth

on sounds totally unnatural to me.

Hi,

"Resolved on doing sth" is not correct usage. The correct form is "resolved to do sth."

Making the phrase negative as in, "He resolved not to tell her the truth," is tricky but you've done it correctly.

I've found those two sentences in my Oxford dictionary. (Actually, I made the two in brackets.) The dictionary says 'resolve ON (doing) sth' is to make a firm decision to do sth, so I wondered what's the difference between 'to do sth' and 'on doing sth'. I was sort of thinking dictionaries wouldn't have false information. At any rate, thank you for your reply.

I didn't make the tricky sentence myself but it was taken from my Oxford dictionary. I should try and get familiar with the form of

Wow, OK. Interesting!

I looked it up in the Corpus of Contemporary American English and I only found one example of that structure.

In the British National Corpus, I did find a few more examples, especially when searching for "resolved

The construction 'to do sth' is way over 'on doing sth!' I should throw away my dictionary. lol. I think you're right. Maybe it's a usage in BrE. I didn't think of looking it up on Google or somewhere else. Thanks, mrBen.

It confused me too! I said it was incorrect usage! Boy, is my face red!