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   Hi, Ardith Hinton!   
   I read your message from 30.03.2023 21:52   
      
     ak>>  Why do those Infinitives are without "to"?   
     AH>           In formal English, the preposition is generally   
     AH> included where it may not always be in colloquial speech.  What   
     AH> I see here is a private conversation (i.e. you may notice turns of   
     AH> phrase Miss Stickler didn't accept).  That's the easy explanation for   
     AH> the last sentence... the other is more complex.  Although it struck me   
     AH> as "not English" with the added preposition, I wasn't really sure why   
     AH> until after wading through multiple definitions of the verb "to    
   have".   
     AH> It seems that if "have" means a third party will be asked &/or   
     AH> required to do the job the preposition is omitted, as in the first   
     AH> sentence you asked about.  :-)   
      
   Ok.   
   BTW, you called those "to"s as "propositions". But prepositions are put    
   before nouns? For instance, in English textbook in Russia we call those    
   "to"s as particles.   
      
   Bye, Ardith!   
   Alexander Koryagin   
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