the only place I could go was to Spain to get a new ID card!

[milan2003_07]

Good afternoon everyone,

The sentence below has been taken from the Students' Book entitled "English File. Pre-Intermediate" by Christina Latham-Koenig, Clive Oxenden, Jerry Lambert, and Paul Seligson.

"I didn't have any ID - the only place I could go was to Spain to get a new ID card!"

Is it possible to omit "to"?

"I didn't have any ID - the only place I could go was Spain to get a new ID card!"

 

[Tarheel]

Yes.

 

[Tarheel]

You could also say:

I didn't have an ID, and I could only go to Spain to get one.

 

[emsr2d2]

Note that Tarheel used "an ID". For info, that doesn't work in BrE. We'd use either "any ID" (as in the OP) or "an ID document".