Grammar Question

Hi,

I saw this sentence in my grammar book:

"There are advantages to stopping smoking."

I am wondering why the sentence is not like:

"There are advantages to stop smoking."

Why do we use "to stopping smoking" instead of "to stop smoking"

Thank you,
Ali

[Tdol]

There are cases where we use 'to'+-ing, like 'look forward to seeing'. The reason is that 'to'is a preposition and not part ofan infinitive- 'to' goes with 'advantages'.

Other common ones include 'be acustomed to' 'be\get used to' 'object to' and any phrasal verb with two prepositions with 'to' at the end.

Thank you TDOL. That helped me.

thank you tdol. That helped me, too.

[Tdol]

You're both welcome.