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Recently, I came across a piece of news. It was about girls being sold off for marriage by their parents after reaching a certain age and how they were not allowed to live as they pleased.
After watching it, I felt so bad for the girls. So I decided to never to do it to my would be wife (or wife to-be? What ever you call it). So in a hypothetical situation ( as I have not planned to get married yet)
if my would be wife asked me if I would treat her the same way and in an attempt to letting her know that I won't, what my answer should be?

A. You are free to do anything you want to do. Or

B. You are free to do anything you want.

Is To Do necessary in the first sentence? And

Do both have different meaning from each other?

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You are free to do anything you want to do

In this, the 'to do' part is redundant and you don't need to repeat it.

You are free to do anything you want

is what generally practiced. Many Google books have the same example; one is here.

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  • And just to make clear the answer to part of the question - yes, they would be read as entirely equivalent. However, if you want to include the "to do" for stylistic or poetic/metrical reasons, it is perfectly acceptable. In casual speech, it would seem stilted.
    – SamBC
    Feb 8, 2019 at 12:33

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