Date: Sat, 3 Jul 2010 23:11:48 +0100 From: RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Just want to ask Message-ID: <20100703231148.0f06f534@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikLmOlqkpYEM83WpssU50lzuhNrlmMH-owRAhf1@mail.gmail.com> References: <201006291638.o5TGckAJ005459@mail.r-bonomi.com> <4C2A37D6.2060506@infracaninophile.co.uk> <D07E4372-2718-4D8A-8349-6647899E2491@queernet.org> <AANLkTikLmOlqkpYEM83WpssU50lzuhNrlmMH-owRAhf1@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sat, 3 Jul 2010 15:36:00 +0100 Chris Rees <utisoft@gmail.com> wrote: > On 29 June 2010 19:18, Roger B.A. Klorese <rogerk@queernet.org> wrote: > > On Jun 29, 2010, at 11:13 AM, Matthew Seaman > > <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> wrote: > >> > >> Whether or not he agrees with them is a matter of philosophical > >> interest only, so long as he keeps to the terms. > > > > Agree TO them, not agree WITH them. > > _______________________________________________ > > As I remember, agree _to_ is valid only when followed by a verb > infinitive (which is indeed where the `to' comes from); To can be part of an infinitive, but in this case it's a preposition. "Agree to them" and "agree with them" have different meanings: roughly comply and concur. I presume he was trying to precis the answer, rather than correct the grammar.
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