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Anonymous Posted 14 years ago
Grammar

Using the word to.

Hello

A friend of mine is studying English and asked me a question about using the word to. Their example was:

They let us treat the wounds
vs
They let us to treat the wounds

I am a native speaker, but I don't know the technical reason why to is not used in that particular sentence. I thought it might be something to do with 'let'. If you replaced let with allowed then to is required.

I would love to know the grammatical reason behind this so I can help them out.

Thanks
Hex
  

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Your reasoning and explanation are correct. Let is indeed the reason. The plain/bare infinitive is used with let and also with active forms of make: Let's go !

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  • Your reasoning and explanation are correct.
  • Let is indeed the reason.
  • The plain/bare infinitive is used with let and also with active forms of make: Let's go !
  • (Not: Let's to go!
  • ) He made me do it.
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Your reasoning and explanation are correct. Let is indeed the reason. The plain/bare infinitive is used with let and also with active forms of make:

Let's go! (Not: Let's to go!)
He made me do it.
Passive: I was made to
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