New2grammar Cool Breeze all prepositions require a gerund
CB, I'm a little surprised to hear this.
She came
to see me. (Is see a gerund?)
In this sentence, "to see" is an infinitive. I have been arguing that in this case "to" is not a preposition and is therefore exempted from CB's rule.
Yankee has kindly advised me that while BrE sources call the "to" an "infinitive
marker," AmE sources consider it to still be a
preposition. My apologies to
New2grammar.
This leaves us in the awkward position of not allowing the "bare infinitive" to follow it's marker, "to," which is of course absurd. Thanks for hanging in on this, New2!