Saturday, 21 November 2015

grammar - Make something "have" or make something "to have"?

You want the bare infinitive here: "makes the received signals have."



The use of the to-infinitive was once more popular, and it survives in religious contexts where it has an archaic feel:




he maketh me to lie down in green pastures




(It's hard to tell what's going on in the sentence because of the "xxx," but I'm willing to bet you want "xxx principle," and not "xxx principal.")

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