What you can do is just enjoy yourself.

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kachibibb

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Say, I am writing to promote a vacation package. And I want to write this sentence:

What you can do here is (to) just enjoy yourself.

I remember someone told me before, in the above kind of situation, "to" is optional or omitted? Is it true? But I forget the reason.
 

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It can be omitted. In fact, that sentence is better without "to".
 

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So both with "to" and without "to" are okay.

What is the grammatical reason for the omission?
 

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What's the subject of the sentence?
 
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