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jays

Joined: 13 Oct 2005
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Posted: Thu May 01, 2008 7:39 am Post subject: devote

Are both "cultivate/cultivating" correct in the following sentence? --- the following ---------- Devote some of your free time to (cultivate/cultivating) a love of reading good books.

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buddhaheart

Joined: 13 Jan 2007
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Location: Vancouver, BC Canada

Posted: Sun May 04, 2008 5:00 pm Post subject:

No, only �� to cultivating ...� Here�to� is not a marker of the infinitive but a preposition. What follows the preposition has to be a noun or a noun phrase.

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