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Seong Wan Park Posted 11 years ago
Grammar

What is the difference between sb to v and sb who v

I've been reading martian and saw sentence like this

"Mark Watney is the only human being to have died on Mars"

Can it be expressed as "Mark Watney is the only human being who have died on Mars"?

What's the difference between them?
  

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org/grammar/british-grammar/perfect-infinitive-with-to-to-have-worked Seong Wan Park Can it be expressed as "Mark Watney is the only human being who have died on Mars"? Yes, it can but note the correction.

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  • org/grammar/british-grammar/perfect-infinitive-with-to-to-have-worked Seong Wan Park Can it be expressed as "Mark Watney is the only human being who have died on Mars"?
  • Yes, it can but note the correction.
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Seong Wan Park"Mark Watney is the only human being to have died on Mars."
Have a look at this explanation of the perfect infinitive:

http://dictionary.cambridge.org/grammar/british-grammar/perfect-infi
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Thank you for your reply.

I saw the reference and it seems that it explains v + perfect infinitive, not n + perfect infinitive. so I couldn't get the exact answer for my question. Could you give me a reference for n + perfect infinitive?
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Seong Wan ParkI saw the reference and it seems that it explains v + perfect infinitive, not n + perfect infinitive.
Here's your (finite) verb:
Seong Wan ParkMark Watney is the only human being to have died on Mars.
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