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(?) it kept me on to saving her.
Posted: Sun Aug 30, 2009 6:42 pm
by Metamorfose
Do you accept such a construction?
(?) it kept me on to saving her.
The sense is that something motivated me to save her.
thanks
José
Posted: Sun Aug 30, 2009 9:17 pm
by fluffyhamster
It seems unacceptable to me. "
It kept me
on to (v-ing)" just doesn't chime with my intuition, and there are no results on Google. The only strings that seem to make sense and show results are "It kept me ADJ/PARTICIPLE" and "It kept me on NOUN" (see Google for examples).
Perhaps you or whoever were looking for something like "It
spurred me on to saving/save her", José? And how about, Sb "
put me
onto" (doing) something (again, search Google).
Bear in mind that there are examples for "kept me on to
v-inf" (with humans rather than dummy, or rather, what would be a strangely impersonal 'It' as subject) with the sense of 'have somebody continue in a job or position':
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q= ... o%22&meta=