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- to+verb vs to+be+verb-ing - English Language Learners Stack Exchange
With action verbs: I go to school in Miami [present simple] I'm going to school in Miami [present progressive as future or present situation] I'd like to go to school in Miami I'd like to be going to school in Miami Explanation: Continuous infinitive The continuous infinitive is used to express a continuing action after a verb or auxiliary which must be followed by the infinitive The
- Through or to? - English Language Learners Stack Exchange
I would like to compare through and to What is their difference in meaning? Which one is (more) correct (or are both correct)? The context can be found in the two sentences below Julie went to sc
- Usage between to and and - English Language Learners Stack Exchange
The second sentence is more explicit that buying milk was the purpose for which you went to the mall You can see this because it makes sense to say "I went to the mall and bought some milk, though I was planning to buy something else instead", but it would be self-contradictory to say "I went to the mall to buy some milk, though I was planning to buy something else instead "
- To the extent that means if or when?
Here's the explanation of to the extent of in Cambridge Dictionary: to a particular degree or stage, often causing particular results This meaning makes perfect sense in the following example sen
- Departure To For - English Language Learners Stack Exchange
Two senses of both "depart" and "departure" are 1) going from one place to another, and 2) leaving one job and taking another job For sense 1, it seems that "depart departure" should be follo
- word difference - to versus in order to - English Language Learners . . .
in order to communicates purpose or intent rather than timing You can simply use to instead, and your sentence will be correct, but in order to makes explicit the actor's reasoning for performing the first action
- prepositions - Cut the price by or to or in half? - English . . .
Cut the price in half and by half mean the same thing You take whatever the price is now, and you reduce it by 50% However, cutting the price to half, may have a different meaning That would imply that the price is reduced to 50% of whatever the original price was So if the item was already discounted by 20%, it would now be discounted by 50%
- grammar - will have to , have to and have had to - English . . .
I can’t understand and distinguish the necessity of using “will have to” instead of “have to” I think both are giving the same meaning and both are giving an indefinite hint of future For example
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