Re: [Debconf-team] [RFR] Please check the DebConf12 final report
Christian PERRIER wrote:
> Quoting victory (victory.deb@gmail.com):
>> Index: video.tex
>> -contributed to increase the quality of the recordings.
>> +contributed to increasing the quality of the recordings.
Or to quote the whole sentence,
# Having dedicated equipment for the DebConf video team has reduced
# the setup time and contributed to increas{e,ing} the quality of the
# recordings.
>> is this right?
>> "to increase" and "increasing" seem correct here.
>
> Thinking twice: this is indeed really weird. Justin, isn't there an
> extra "to" left?
No, because the "to" here isn't the one that marks infinitives; it's
part of the "phrasal verb" "contribute to". You could rephrase the
sentence as follows:
| Having dedicated equipment for the DebConf video team has had two
| benefits:
| 1) it has reduced something (that is, setup time);
| 2) it has contributed to something (that is, the process of
| increasing the quality of the recordings).
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