Monday, May 30, 2016

grammaticality - “To enable him to escape” vs. “to enable him escape”

I have been coming across this kind of sentence more and more:





She gave him a key to enable him to escape capture.
She gave him a key to enable him escape capture.




Which sentence is correct? My understanding is that the preposition should be repeated as both enable and escape are verbs.

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