What's the difference between these two sentences:
- Mon but est faire le bien autour de moi.
- Mon but est de faire le bien autour de moi.
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What's the difference between these two sentences:
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In that situation, "de" is used to build a prepositional group (de faire le bien autour de moi). This prepositional group is the attribute of the subject. There are different kinds of constructions for the attribute of the subject:
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According to the Banque de dépannage linguistique, it is a pecularity of the infinitive phrases that are arguments of être if the subject is not an infinitive itself : such constructions have to begin by de. I'd have a hard time trying to derive a general rule from this
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In the second sentence the "de" has the same role than the "to" when you say
The first sentence is wrong. It would be similar than saying in English:
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