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Ethanw Posted 20 years ago
Grammar

sentences

Please adivse is it correct to say:

All you need is pick up a phone and call.

All he does is sit in fronnt of the TV all day.

Sentences like these sound familiar to me, but both of them seem not grammatical..
  

Top answer

All you need to do is to pick up a phone and call. front.

— Nona the brit

  • All you need to do is to pick up a phone and call.
  • front.
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All you need to do is to pick up a phone and call.

front.
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I see. Thank you.
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Besides what nona said

  • All you need is to pick up a phone and call.
is fine as well.

  • All he does is to sit in front of the TV.

  • All he does is sitting in front of the TV all day.
  1. to sit suggest an one-time action

  2. sitting should be better because of all day
I use th
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"All he does is sit" is fine according to the editors at nytimes.com:

  1. http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F40D16FC3D5B0C768DDDA80894DE404482

    ... a newspaper. All he does is sit in his great house, ...

    January 15, 2006 - (NYT) - Arts -
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Nona's however right, according to the editors at nytimes.com:

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?sec=travel&res=9F01EEDB143BF931A25755C0A965948260

... . All you need to do is to pick up a map at the tourist ...
June 12
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You are going to confuse Ethanw only. Emotion: smile All are fine but but but.

All you need to do is to pick up a phone and call.
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Hi, Aperisic:

Thank you a lot for taking so much time and effort to explain. But you are right, as an English learner, the simple traditional usage is what I need.

Best regards
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