[Grammar] agree with/ to

[Kotfor]

What is the difference?

We will agree to your proposal if you will postpone action.
We will agree with your proposal if you will postpone action.

 

[José Manuel Rosón Bravo]

[Not a teacher]

Agree to

1. To express that someone allows something to happen (We will agree to your proposal if you will postpone action).
2. To say that someone is prepared to something.

Agree With

1. To express the same opinion.
2. To approve of a particular idea or action (We will agree with your proposal if you will postpone action).
3. To express that two things match.
4. To talk about things that makes us happy or healthy.

Agree on

Two o more people decide to do something.

Agree about

To express that people have the same opinion on a particular subject.

 

[Kotfor]

Thank you. However, I think that "To approve of a particular idea or action" can also fairly refer to "We will agree to your proposal if you will postpone action." I need to be thinking of it a bit more.

 

[MikeNewYork]

Your sentences are close, but the sentence with "to" is more about an action than simple agreement. I also think that both would be just as good (and possibly better) without the second "will".

 

[Kotfor]

Your sentences are close, but the sentence with "to" is more about an action than simple agreement. I also think that both would be just as good (and possibly better) without the second "will".

I see. The action on whose part do you mean? On the part of the ones agreeing or on the part of those who propose?

 

[MikeNewYork]

The ones who are agreeing.

 

[José Manuel Rosón Bravo]

Agree to

1. To express that someone allows something to happen (We will agree to your proposal if you postpone action).

Agree With

2. To approve of a particular idea or action (We will agree with your proposal if you postpone action).

 

[Kotfor]

Agree to

1. To express that someone allows something to happen (We will agree to your proposal if you postpone action).

Agree With

2. To approve of a particular idea or action (We will agree with your proposal if you postpone action).

Where did you get this definition from?

 

[José Manuel Rosón Bravo]

I have plenty of manuals and tutorials on English here home.

 

[Kotfor]

Have no doubt on that. But I was wondering about the name of the source.

 

[José Manuel Rosón Bravo]

In this case, a classic: the Advanced Grammar in Use of Martin Herwings (1999) by Cambridge University Press.

Not exactly the one on the website, but the first edition from 1999 (image).

 

[Kotfor]

Thank you. To be honest, I don't see what makes him infer that there is a certain allowance in "agree to"

1. To express that someone allows something to happen (We will agree to your proposal if you postpone action).

 

[José Manuel Rosón Bravo]

In this case, to agree to something would be equivalent to say "yes" to something or to allow something to happen.

For instance, the employee asked for a promotion, and the management agreed to it. The promotion would take place because they allowed it.

Because they agreed to it.