In SC Guide 8, 3rd ed - page 71:

Question 3: "Many teachers choose to seek employment in the suburbs rather than to face low salaries in the city". - Please clarify if there is a need for the insertion of "to", as in "rather than to face low salaries", or that the sentence can stand without the word "to", which then reads as "rather than face low salaries".

Question 6: "The joint business venture will increase employee satisfaction and will improve relations between upper management and staff" - Please clarify if there is a need for the insertion of "will", as in "employee satisfaction and will improve relations", or that the sentence can stand without the word "will", which then reads as "employee satisfaction and improve relations".


As a separate question, in page 187 of the same book, the sentence "The judge considers the law to be illegal" is labelled under the "suspect" category. My question is, when is the construction "to be" correctly used?

Would appreciate any of the instructors' views. Thanks

Q3
You do need the first instance of "to" but, in this case, you do not need to repeat the "to" for the second infinitive verb.

Q6
Likewise, you do need the first instance of "will" but, in this case, you do not need to repeat the "will" for the second part.

I do want to mention that there are circumstances in which you would have to repeat the second instance. For example:

"Many teachers choose not only to seek employment but also to retire early."
In this case, you cannot say "many teachers choose not only to seek employment but also retire early" because you have a 2-part idiom: not only X but also Y. "rather than" is only a 1-part idiom (X rather than Y - nothing before the X).

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