Timeline for Is "We're glad that we're going to spend" equal to "We're looking forward spending"?
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| Jun 16, 2020 at 9:11 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Nov 16, 2015 at 10:42 | comment | added | user230 | So-called phrasal verbs are, in fact, a type of idiom. | |
| Nov 15, 2015 at 14:23 | comment | added | StoneyB on hiatus | I think what is confusing you is that you are taking the to here as an infinitive marker. It is, however, the ordinary preposition, which takes a nominal as its object. In User1's examples above, Christmas and summer are nouns, and going to the dentist is a gerund clause, headed by an -ing form which may play the syntactic roles characteristic of nouns. | |
| Nov 15, 2015 at 13:59 | comment | added | user20792 | I should have written Do you look forward to going to the dentist? | |
| Nov 15, 2015 at 13:54 | comment | added | user20792 | The free dictionary should not have said it is an idiom; look forward to is a phrasal verb. See Cambridge Dictionary in comment above and also MacMillan dictionary | |
| Nov 15, 2015 at 13:48 | comment | added | user20792 | Because the complete phrasal verb is three words: look forward to. I'm looking forward to Christmas. He looks forward to summer each year. Do you forward to going to the dentist? One cannot omit the to in any of these examples and it is necessary in your sentence. It is a three-word phrasal verb. | |
| Nov 15, 2015 at 13:45 | comment | added | user20792 | The to is not optional in this context. See, Cambridge Dictionary | |
| Nov 15, 2015 at 13:43 | comment | added | uuu | why? what exactly does the to in this situation? is the version without it always wrong, or are there also areas of application? | |
| Nov 15, 2015 at 13:39 | history | edited | uuu | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 15, 2015 at 13:30 | history | edited | uuu | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 15, 2015 at 12:30 | comment | added | nicael | "We're looking forward to spending the following weeks on this play." | |
| Nov 15, 2015 at 12:24 | answer | added | Ultrasaurus | timeline score: 3 | |
| Nov 15, 2015 at 11:34 | history | edited | uuu | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 15, 2015 at 11:07 | history | edited | uuu |
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| Nov 15, 2015 at 10:57 | history | asked | uuu | CC BY-SA 3.0 |