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1Likes- 02-Sep-2011, 07:33 #1
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work for us to do / for us doing There is plenty of work for us shovelling snow.
This sentence comes from Quirk's Grammar. Can we use 'to shovel' instead of 'shovelling'?
Thank you in advance.
- 02-Sep-2011, 14:35 #2
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Teacher Re: work for us to do / for us doing It would be understood, but wouldn't sound natural. If you want to use 'to', you could say 'plenty of work for us to do, shovelling snow'.
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