Holly Jahangiri
Nov 17, 2021

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Or, you could explain for the back of the class, that the term is “bare infinitive" and help them understand when and why the use of “to" is grammatically incorrect, Linda.

https://englishlessonsbrighton.co.uk/bare-infinitive/

Unlike the lady in your example, some of us are proudly, unrepentantly pedantic and had blue-haired 5th grade teachers who made us diagram endless sentences until we genuinely did care.

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