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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 !
21 de abr de 2017 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"
21 de abril de 2017
Devoted means committed.
24 de abril de 2017
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.
21 de abril de 2017
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