On a similar grammatical point, Winston Churchill is commonly attributed as saying, ""This is the sort of bloody nonsense up with which I will not put." If "to escape" bothers you so much, rewrite the sentence. Helping him escape, she gave him the key.
“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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