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The athlete enjoyed lifting weights

by RobertS667 Sun Feb 26, 2017 3:54 am

Sentence Correction 6th Guide. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to find the exact page.

The athlete enjoyed lifting weights more than running around the track.

Why is the following construction with infinitive forms wrong? The athlete enjoyed to lift weights more than to run around the track.
The solutions of the Guide are that the elements would not work by itself with the root phrase for example "The athlete enjoyed to run around the track."

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Re: The athlete enjoyed lifting weights

by RonPurewal Sat Apr 08, 2017 4:53 am

"enjoy + to [verb]" isn't idiomatic.
in other words, the conventions of english just don't allow "to [verb]" to be combined with "enjoy".