Tuesday, March 17, 2015

conjunction reduction - Repeated elements following an “and”: Use ’em or Lose ’em?

Here is a sentence:




You have to be nice to alleviate the social anxiety and start a healthy relationship.





Should it be like that or like this:




You have to be nice to alleviate the social anxiety and to start a healthy relationship."




The first does not have a to, but the second does. Which should I use, and why? Or doesn’t it matter?

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