MyShirley  +  213746 Sun, 09 Apr 06 10:37 AM You can decide which norms to be used. You can decide which norms to use. Which one is correct? thanks MyShirley Joined on Thu, Jan 26 2006 Full Member 239

	milky  +  213750 Sun, 09 Apr 06 10:58 AM  MyShirley wrote: You can decide which norms to be used. You can decide which norms to use. Which one is correct? thanks You can decide which norms are to be used. You can decide which norms to use. Now, both are correct. milky Joined on Thu, Jan 15 2004 Senior Member 3,149 Hume said that if we had perfect or complete descriptive knowledge of reality, we could not, by reasoning, derive a single valid "ought".

	paco2004  +  213767 Sun, 09 Apr 06 12:14 PM  MyShirley wrote: You can decide which norms to be used. You can decide which norms to use. Which one is correct? "You can decide which norms to use" is correct. paco paco2004 Joined on Wed, Nov 17 2004 Senior Member 4,095 In Japan today even dogs are learning how to bow-wow in English.

	milky  +  213775 Sun, 09 Apr 06 01:16 PM  Paco2004 wrote:  MyShirley wrote: You can decide which norms to be used. You can decide which norms to use. Which one is correct? "You can decide which norms to use" is correct. paco As is, "You can decide which norms are to be used." milky

	paco2004  +  213914 Mon, 10 Apr 06 12:53 AM I had no intention to say what Milky had said was wrong. What we have to tell the questioner as a grammar rule is :  The 'WH-word' cannot be the subject of 'to V' in infinitival phrases in the form of 'WH-word to V'. . So which norms to be used is wrong because which norms is the subject of to be used. "You can decide which norms are to be used" is OK because here which norms is the subject of are, not of to be used. paco paco2004 Grammar

	milky  +  214011 Mon, 10 Apr 06 09:35 AM  Paco2004 wrote: I had no intention to say what Milky had said was wrong. What we have to tell the questioner as a grammar rule is :  The 'WH-word' cannot be the subject of 'to V' in infinitival phrases in the form of 'WH-word to V'. . So which norms to be used is wrong because which norms is the subject of to be used. "You can decide which norms are to be used" is OK because here which norms is the subject of are, not of to be used. paco I think, if a poster has already corrected the questioner, you should at least make a comment about that. milky Grammar