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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>
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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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