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English language (monolingual) [PRO] Science - Agriculture | |||||||
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3 +5 | tool to start and method to increase |
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4 +4 | methods of increasing |
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tool to start and method to increase Explanation: If you Google these two expressions in inverted commas just for English you get 36 and 50 million hits respectively. They are presumably not all from texts written by non-native speakers. I have chosen two absolutely randomly. Although your examples also slightly jar on my native, but a tad old-fashioned and conservative if not to say pedantic ears, I think that in fact the English language is evolving here cas elsewhere and that the form with "to" is now also possible. So I wouldn't actually change it, especially as it is not your text. Reference: http://www.freedownloadscenter.com/Information_Management/Ca... Reference: http://www.bepress.com/ucbbiostat/paper171/ |
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