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swallow888

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Is this sentence correct? I read this sentence in a newspaper article.

We do not agree to our daughter attending the medical appointment with Dr. Lui next Tuesday.
 

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I agree it is correct.
What is your doubt about the sentence?
 

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We do not agree to our daughter having a medical appointment with Dr. Lui next Tuesday.
 

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I simply go to or have an appointment, particularly a doctor's appointment.
 

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An appointment is an arrangement. How could you 'go to' an arrangement?
 

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It's not an arrangement. We arrange an appointment.

I am going to my doctor's appointment at 2pm this afternoon.
I will be going to a dental appointment next Tuesday.
I have four dental appointments this month. I'm fed up with them. I might only go to three of them!
 

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OP's question is not being answered i.e. if his sentence is correct.
The present continuous tense is used to indicate something that will happen in the near future, so I don't see anything wrong with the original sentence.
 

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I don't think it is the present continuous tense because the verb 'to be' is missing.
I consider it a present participle modifying 'daughter'.
 

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... and two of us liked it.
 
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