Thread: go to the trouble of/to
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Old 20-May-2008, 15:16
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Default Re: go to the trouble of/to
The problem is the ugly construction of 'went to...to (verb)' in this context.

I took the trouble to explain what the difference was.

I went to the trouble of explaining what the difference was.
(and 'took' here would sound just as ugly)
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