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1 yes the to can be omitted 2 not grammatically right you have an infinitive to do set in parallel to a participial clause or gerund Or you can look at it as have to do must do X I must learning English

If redundancy is not an issue then reduction results in ungrammaticality I think Casi has hit on something there Let me see if I can summarize the areas where we have consensus I am assuming throughout that Casi s you your one one s Since the question of whether ing is a gerund or participle in...

I ve read the thread and what a wonderful discussion it is Here are my humble thoughts on the distribution Dangling 1 After eating lunch my bike was fixed After eating lunch an adverbial phrase has the following internal structure preposition gerund object The main clause my bike was fixed is...

Hello Komountain 1 After eating lunch my bike was fixed you re correct this sentence is wrong and suggests that the bike had eaten lunch which only happens in Polish cartoons 2 After eating lunch I fixed my bike you re right eating relates to I 3 By inserting the word or the ambiguity can be...