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Sb70012 Posted 4 years ago
Grammar

What you need to do is to drink/drinking

Let me show you how you can spend your free time in this Chinese tea house. What you need to do is to drink a few cups of tea while watching Beijing's traditional stage shows. Every day there are some traditional Chinese stage shows in this tea house.

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Hi,

Is "to drink" fine in my context? Or do I need to say "drinking"?


Thank you.

  

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sb70012 What you need to do is to drink ... Fine. Also, What you need to do is drink ...

— CalifJim

  • sb70012 What you need to do is to drink ...
  • Fine.
  • Also, What you need to do is drink ...
  • But, What you are doing is drinking ...
  • In short, echo 'doing' with an -ing verb.
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sb70012What you need to do is to drink ...

Fine.

Also, What you need to do is drink ...

But, What you are doing is drinking ...

In short, echo 'doing' with an -ing verb. For every other form of 'do', echo with 1) the verb alone or 2) 'to' and the verb.

CJ

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