stop doing/stop to do

[Gość: abby]

chyba popadam w paranoje...
zawsze wydawalo mi sie, ze roznica jest nastepujaca:
stop doing = przestać coś robić
stop to do = zatrzymać się żeby coś zrobić
Rozmawiałam dziś z 5 lektorem angielskiego, ktory twierdzi, ze stop to do-to
tez przestac cos robic, tyle ze na jakis czas.
czyli:
stop smoking=rzucic palenie
stop to smoke=przestac palic papierosa.

Co jest...??????????????????????????????????

zmien lektora

[Gość: lektor]

ten ktory tak twierdzi, to jakis niedouczony

[mmaly]

Zdecydowanie zmień lektora.
Niestety, bywają tacy. Miałem kiedyś ucznia na korepetycjach, którego profesor w liceum nastawiał pewnego dnia kilkanaście pał, bo uczniowie mówili "two thousand three hundred twenty" zamiast "two thousands three hundreds twenty".
Twój lektor cierpi na tą samą chorobę niewiedzy, co ten profesor z krakowskiego liceum.

[hatemuti]

Gość portalu: abby napisał(a):
> Rozmawiałam dziś z 5 lektorem angielskiego, ktory twierdzi, ze stop to do-to
> tez przestac cos robic, tyle ze na jakis czas.
> czyli:
> stop smoking=rzucic palenie
> stop to smoke=przestac palic papierosa.

S/He must have punished you for placing him/her only fifth on your list;))

[Gość: fazz]

You are not getting mad !!!
Your teacher would probably benefit from some revision

Let's have a look at

cease
finish
quit
stop

Of these only "cease" can be complemented by both infinitives and - INGs. The
others are restricted to the -INGs."Stop" is particularly interesting because
it can be followed by an infinitive, but the infinitive in this case is NOT a
complement, but a modifying adverbial.

He stopped to cook dinner.

means that the subject ceased some other activity IN ORDER TO cook
dinner, not that the activity of cooking is stopped. Notice that this
meaning does not arise with *cease*:

He ceased to cook dinner after he married.

means that the subject does not cook dinner anymore.

Regards

pozdrowieni dla 5 lektorów

[ampolion]

Where "do not smoke" fits into all this?

[chickenshorts]

"Co jest...??????????????????????????????????"

Hi, abby.
Are those five experts a highly qualified home brew or the 'natives'?
Have you hired them?

[hatemuti]

chickenshorts napisał:

> "Co jest...??????????????????????????????????"
>
> Hi, abby.
> Are those five experts a highly qualified home brew or the 'natives'?
> Have you hired them?

qualified or natives????

is that a sign of some iferiority complex, chickenshorts?

[chickenshorts]

hatemuti napisała:

> qualified or natives????

forum.gazeta.pl/forum/72,2.html?f=517&w=15109680&a=15231494
And, well, yes, I'd like to question the whole new meaning of 'qualified', the
word seems to have acquired in Poland recently...

> is that a sign of some iferiority complex, chickenshorts?

Yes, this, among other unreasonable complexes...