Jan 10, 2007 15:02
17 yrs ago
English term
sinwall
need to in order to
Non-PRO
English
Art/Literary
Linguistics
" we need to in order to send our children to school, " she said.
Is the sentence grammatical? What is this "Need to in order to"?
Is the sentence grammatical? What is this "Need to in order to"?
Responses
| 4 +15 | need to (do whatever was mentioned in previous sentence) |
Marie-Hélène Hayles
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| 4 +1 | to enable us to |
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Responses
+15
3 mins
Marie-Hélène Hayles
Native in English
&
English
medicine - chemistry - pharmaceuticals
Native in: English
Works in: Italian to English, English
Related KudoZ points
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8
Selected
need to (do whatever was mentioned in previous sentence)
It's perfectly grammatical: the "need to" refers to whatever was mentioned in the previous sentence (have a car? use public transport? earn lots of money?)
Peer comment(s):
| agree |
Jack Doughty
: It might be clearer with a comma after "need to", but I agree that it is grammatically correct as it stands.
1 min
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| agree |
Vicky Papaprodromou
2 mins
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| agree |
Alfa Trans (X)
27 mins
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| agree |
Yo Mizuno
56 mins
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| agree |
jccantrell
: yep, with Jack on this.
1 hr
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| agree |
Will Matter
: with Jack. The meaning is "We need to" Why? "in order to send our children to school". Same as saying "In order to send our kids to school we need to do X". Good job.
1 hr
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| agree |
Roman Bardachev
2 hrs
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| agree |
Madeleine MacRae Klintebo
3 hrs
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| agree |
Alison Jenner
: also with Jack
5 hrs
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| agree |
Peter Shortall
: I think this is a case of ellipsis - there is an implied verb/verb phrase after "need to" which is not actually stated, probably because it has already been stated in the preceding bit of text (which sadly we can't see...)
5 hrs
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| agree |
Sophia Finos (X)
6 hrs
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| agree |
Paula Vaz-Carreiro
7 hrs
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| agree |
anastasia t (X)
1 day 13 hrs
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| agree |
Can Altinbay
2 days 2 hrs
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| agree |
Isabelle Bouchet
7 days
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
Comment: "Selected automatically based on peer agreement."
+1
3 mins
to enable us to
in order to means to enable to or to give the means to.
For example, "We need to sell the car in order to buy a boat."
For example, "We need to sell the car in order to buy a boat."
Discussion
A: Do we really need to sell our car ?
B: Yes, unfortunately we NEED TO (sell our car) in order to send Mary to school !
Another example:
I shouldn't ask for a bank loan but I guess I need to in order to buy that property!
Did you understand ?