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give a lift to or without "to"?
A man who I gave a lift to - would not work without to?
Though the versions with to are far more common, relative clauses and reduced relative clauses (where the that, who or whom etc is elided) may …
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What is the second "to" in "to take this opportunity to foreground poetry"?
Many if not all nouns take complements of one form or another.
Some nouns (whether appearing in the subject or object) take to-infinitive clauses as complements:
Their claim to have found the ans …
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What is the correct way to use infinitive after the verb "help": with or without "to"?
The passive forms, though queried by Quirk, are used.
"I was helped clean" shows 3 Google hits.
"I was helped to clean" shows 2950 Google hits. (at my space-time coordinates)
This is how I felt the …
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