“To enable him to escape” vs. “to enable him escape”?

Question

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.

Answer 1

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.