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Wink Re: When "To" is used as a preposition rather than an infinitive?

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Originally Posted by Niall Beag View Post
I think that's completely different.

Why?

Is this the way to Amarillo?
Do you know the way to San José?

The noun "way" habitually takes a direction (after all, it's just an Anglo-Saxon word for a road, and is still used that way in parts of Scotland), but "room" doesn't.
Niall, my example sentences have nothing to do with the concrete term of road; instead, they represent a usage of the abstract term of method; that's what I think is completely different.
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