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When can we omit?

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s.mousavi
 Post subject: When can we omit?
 Post Posted: Sat Aug 07, 2010 5:54 am 
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Chapter 4-Question 2:
"Although we were sitting in the bleachers, the baseball game was as exciting to us as to the people sitting behind home plate". Why "to" after "as exciting to us as" remained?

Chapter 4-Question 3:
"Many teachers choose to seek employment in the suburbs rather than face low salaries in the city". Why should we omit "to" in the second part (rather than face low ...)?
Please clarify the differences between these two cases.
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tim
 Post subject: Re: When can we omit?
 Post Posted: Fri Aug 13, 2010 6:30 pm 
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In the first sentence, omitting the word "to" makes it sound like we are the people sitting behind home plate. Hence we need the "to" in order to make sense of the sentence. If this were not the case, the "to" would be optional..

We see this in the second example. The "to" is optional in front of "face". The decision whether to use it depends on the point at which you break the sentence into two parallel tracks - before or after the word "to". Don't rule out either of these options though, because they can both be correct..

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