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Hello everyone,
Are all the sentences below OK?
1. The bed is too high to climb onto it.
2. The bed is too high to climb onto.
3. The bed is too high to climb.
Kind regards,
JA
Top answer
Only 2 is exactly right to my ear. The pattern too X to Y always sounds awkward when Y contains a pronoun that refers back to something earlier in the sentence. The bed is too high to climb onto it .
- Only 2 is exactly right to my ear.
- The pattern too X to Y always sounds awkward when Y contains a pronoun that refers back to something earlier in the sentence.
- The bed is too high to climb onto it .
- If a preposition is involved, however, it virtually always occurs in the Y part.
- I would not use 3.
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Only 2 is exactly right to my ear.
The pattern too X to Y always sounds awkward when Y contains a pronoun that refers back to something earlier in the sentence. The bed is too high to climb onto it.
If a preposition is involved, however, it virtually always occurs in the Y part. I would not use 3.
CJ
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