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Is that "to" mandatory and needed, or is it wrong and unneeded?

I give my friend great advice, saying to them how they shouldn't treat girls by telling my story, "All the girls who I've made [to] love me forcefully, have eventually dumped me away."

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    The first question in the duplicate list contains an answer by Prof. Lawler and the second one of his comments that both explain the practice and origin of verbs that take bare infinitives like make, let, have as part of the “grammaticalization cycle”. Sense verbs like see, watch, hear also do this trick of skipping the to the way modal verbs always do, but less lexicalized verbs like want, allow, direct, require do not.
    – tchrist ♦
    Commented Dec 28, 2022 at 18:39
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    Plastic dummies I've made to love me. Think about that for a moment.
    – Lambie
    Commented Dec 28, 2022 at 18:57
  • But I still don't understand if that "to" is needed.
    – user470503
    Commented Dec 29, 2022 at 3:47

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