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Alc24 Posted 17 years ago
Grammar

TO optional or not in sentence

Is TO optional or not? and is the 2nd OK?

1 Coming here is making me never TO want to buy one again.
2 You're making me want to buy one yet again.
  

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Sentence #2 is correct. As for #1, I would not use TO. Someone else will have to tell us why.

  • Sentence #2 is correct.
  • As for #1, I would not use TO.
  • Someone else will have to tell us why.
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Sentence #2 is correct.

As for #1, I would not use TO. Someone else will have to tell us why.
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Sir: I found this in a book that is often consulted by teachers: MAKE and HAVE are two causative verbs that take complements without TO: I made her stay until the mystery was solved; He had the gardener trim the hedges.

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