English Language & Usage Asked by GrammarJava on May 22, 2021
I’m reading ‘When Breath Becomes Air’ by the late Paul Kalanithi, and I came across the sentence: “I could see that there were two strategies to cutting the time short…” My question is why “to cutting” is used rather than “for cutting”.
As much as I know, "cutting" here acts like a noun and it is common to use. That is a bit different from Gerund and Infintive structure, but "to" is a preposition + gerund (verb+ing) here. And I assume that you are native of a language which "to" and "for" are used interchangeably in it.
Answered by Arat on May 22, 2021
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