Timeline for stated rule on use of infinitives in a sequence?
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| Sep 28, 2018 at 19:16 | comment | added | John Lawler | Another example of Conjunction Reduction, which links the example sentence with a compound sentence It is vital for a viewer of this movie to listen for its main character's underlying position, it is vital for a viewer of this movie to contrast it with those of the other characters, and ultimately it is vital for a viewer of this movie to determine which view is true. Conjunction Reduction removes repeated material -- but it has to be repeated exactly the same. And it doesn't just apply to infinitives; it's much more general. | |
| Sep 28, 2018 at 17:33 | answer | added | MikeJRamsey56 | timeline score: 2 | |
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| Sep 28, 2018 at 17:15 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | Are you asking about the "rule, syntactic principle" that allows us to "delete" the infinitive marker to from the second and third highlighted infinitives? It's entirely a stylistic choice whether to explicitly repeat to in this context, and you can either delete both (2nd & 3rd) or neither, or (at a pinch) just delete the last one. But idiomatically you can't delete only the second instance, and "resurrect" it for the final one. | |
| Sep 28, 2018 at 15:41 | comment | added | user22542 | Rule concerning what specifically? | |
| Sep 28, 2018 at 15:38 | comment | added | WS2 | Isn't it simply a matter of putting them in a logical sequence. One can't "determine" before one has "contrasted" and one cannot "contrast" before one has "listened" - not in that example anyway. | |
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| Sep 28, 2018 at 15:27 | history | edited | Lawrence | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Sep 28, 2018 at 15:25 | history | asked | Dina Lopez | CC BY-SA 4.0 |