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What does devoted mean in this sentence?
So I'm reading a book and I came across a sentence I couldn't grasp the meaning of, which is :
#I devoted quite a bit of my abundant free time to thinking of death
About the grammar in this sentence, why is it "to thinking" and not "devoted quite a bit of my abundant free time thinking of death"?
Thank you !
2017年4月21日 15:08
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"Devoted" needs a preposition (and it doesn't have to come immediately afterwards)
Example: "devoted time to thinking..."
Or "devoted to thinking"
2017年4月21日
Devoted means committed.
2017年4月24日
I'm not sure the actual grammatical reason, but "devoted" is almost always followed by "to" in a sentence. 99% of the time you will use "devoted to" + ___ing. Maybe 1% of the time you will use "devoted in" instead, but it's pretty uncommon.
2017年4月21日
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