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&lt;font color=red&gt;DO NOT post paragraphs and compositions here.  Post them in our &lt;a href="http://www.englishforums.com/English/EssayReportCompositionWriting/Forum9.htm"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Essay, Report and Composition Writing Forum&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/font&gt;</description><dc:language>en</dc:language><generator>XMOD (Build: 3715.30106)</generator><item><title>Re: ...is to be yourself</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/IsToBeYourself/bmcxn/post.htm#143325</link><pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 10:13:52 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:143325</guid><dc:creator>CalifJim</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://www.englishforums.com/English/IsToBeYourself/bmcxn/post.htm#143325</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments12-143325.xml</wfw:commentRss><description>As implied above, the "to" is optional, as it always is in the pseudo-cleft construction such as you have here. 
 
CJ</description></item><item><title>Re: ...is to be yourself</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/IsToBeYourself/bmcxn/post.htm#143310</link><pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2009 10:13:52 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:143310</guid><dc:creator>Philip</dc:creator><slash:comments>1</slash:comments><comments>http://www.englishforums.com/English/IsToBeYourself/bmcxn/post.htm#143310</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments12-143310.xml</wfw:commentRss><description>Knowledge Hunter wrote:    The only thing you can do now is to be yourself. Is this sentence clear? Does it have any grammatical mistakes?    It is clear and correct. Some might question the use of the infinitive (to be) but I find it better than just plain 'be'.</description></item><item><title>...is to be yourself</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/IsToBeYourself/bmcxn/post.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2009 10:13:52 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:143306</guid><dc:creator>Knowledge Hunter</dc:creator><slash:comments>2</slash:comments><comments>http://www.englishforums.com/English/IsToBeYourself/bmcxn/post.htm</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments12-143306.xml</wfw:commentRss><description>The only thing you can do now is to be yourself. Is this sentence clear? Does it have any grammatical mistakes?</description></item></channel></rss>