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Originally Posted by borsbali  Hi, Naamplao!
Thanks for explaining.
With the first two sentences, I wanted ask what YOU would write in an instructions book as a title above a text:
"How to use this microwave oven" OR "How use this microwave oven"
With another example:
Which title would you write in the instructions of a pain-killer's pack as a title:
"When take the medicine?" OR "When to take the medicine"
I emphasize that I know these are not complete sentences but they occur in everyday life mainly in instructions mentioned earlier and I never know whether (to?) use bare infinitive or infinitive. (again: do I need to in this last sentence? 
Thanks a lot. Bye for now,
Balázs. |
There are many "How to" books on the market as instruction manuals.
Your title should always be in the form:
"How to use this microwave oven"
If this is for a specific model of microwave oven then its name should appear in the title. Also you could change "use" to "operate", though "use" is certainly correct.
How to operate the General Dynamic model 123XL Microwave Oven
or as an alternative title you might use
Operating instructions for the General Dynamic model 123XL Microwave Oven
Coming back to "how [infinitive]" versus "how [verb]" you never use the "how[verb]" format.