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Thread: devote + verb bare or V-ing ?
- 10-Oct-2011, 11:24 #1
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devote + verb bare or V-ing ? hello
please help me with this sentence ,
The professor devoted all his life ...........(teach).... students .
choose the best answer
1/ to teach 2/ teaching
- 10-Oct-2011, 11:32 #2
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Teacher Re: devote + verb bare or V-ing ? You devote your life to X. X must be a noun, pronoun or gerund (verbal noun), so we need 'teaching' after the preposition 'to'.
- 10-Oct-2011, 11:34 #3
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Teacher Re: devote + verb bare or V-ing ? If your only choices are "to teach" or simply "teaching" then neither is correct. It should be "to teaching".
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