What does grammar mean, as in: be + verb + verb) Grammar
Where did you see the answer of
- “All you have to do is read”? I love reading and after a few questions here and
there I wanted to know my answer. My mind just starts blank.
Which one is correct, and can’t the wrong one be
correct
informally as a single letter?
What is the rationale for a successful application of Reliance Testing Methods?
I am more of a technologist and also a programmer. The second option is more correct structure.
Why do I explain it in the middle of my sentence already? To do is an infinitive verb because the unsuffixed action word do precedes the preposition to (which is actually part of the infinitive verb, not just preceding it).
If the verb at the end of a sentence is not infinite, why can’t it be infinitive? The infinitive to do is said to come before having the preposition to do. It shouldn’t simply because the previous infinitive verb, to do, already includes the preposition to. So as to change the verb, it doesn’t need it.
How does English reduce repetitive word as much as possible? And why do I need to change this? In your first example, to is found before both verbs. But since that’s repetitive, the to can be removed from the second verb and essentially shared from the first verb.
I think it’s easier if we assume that this sentence is “cleaned up” versions of the …
1b. All I have to do is let me finish it soon.
Native speakers will sometimes erase a ‘ninja’ repeatation not necessarily something bad.
The second (without to) is more common. But both are grammatical.
GloWBe (The Corpus of Global Web-based English) has 210 instances without ‘to’ and 52 with ‘to’.
