Newsgroup: it.cultura.linguistica.inglese
Titolo: secondo voi è corretto questo utilizzo del TO ?

Salve a tutti,
una piccola e semplice domanda.
Da quel che so in alcuni casi una frase può anche iniziare col TO.
Vorrei pertanto una vostra gentile conferma su queste due righe:
 
Can you help us?
 
Sure. To provide you full assistance etc.etc.
 
 
Mille grazie.
Francesco
 
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 Sure. To provide you full assistance etc.etc.
 
 
In questo esempio il punto potrebbe anche essere una virgola:
Sure, to provide you full assistance etc.etc.
 
C'è un esempio _abbastanza_ famoso di frase che comincia con
un "to":
To be, or not to be--that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles
And by opposing end them. To die, to sleep--
No more--and by a sleep to say we end
The heartache, and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to. 'Tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wished. To die, to sleep--
To sleep--perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub,
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause. There's the respect
That makes calamity of so long life.
For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,
Th' oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely
The pangs of despised love, the law's delay,
The insolence of office, and the spurns
That patient merit of th' unworthy takes,
When he himself might his quietus make
With a bare bodkin? Who would fardels bear,
To grunt and sweat under a weary life,
But that the dread of something after death,
The undiscovered country, from whose bourn
No traveller returns, puzzles the will,
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not of?
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all,
And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought,
And enterprise of great pitch and moment
With this regard their currents turn awry
And lose the name of action. -- Soft you now,
The fair Ophelia! -- Nymph, in thy orisons
Be all my sins remembered.
 
 
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 Sure. To provide you full assistance etc.etc.
 
Si puì iniziare una frase con "to," ma l'esempio non è una frase 
completa, è una clausa dipendente. Allora si può dire:
To provide you full assistance, we have a staff of trained professionals.
 
The sentence or independent clause: we have a staff of trained 
professionals.
The dependent clause: to provide you full assistance
 
Si può dire anche: We have a staff of trained professionals to provide 
you full assistance.
 
Meglio dire: We have a staff of trained professionals who can fully 
assist you.

Ringrazio entrambi per la risposta.
 
Per Tony: Nel mio caso quel TO inziiale è necessariamente collegato alla 
domanda Can you ecc.ecc.
Dopo una domanda del genere, quindi, riteni anche tu corretto iniziare 
con Sure. To provide ecc. ?
 
Francesco
 
 
Il 29/11/2015 19:42, Tony the Ice Man ha scritto:
 > On 11/29/15 9:37 AM, Franco Nero wrote:
 >> Salve a tutti,
 >> una piccola e semplice domanda.
 >> Da quel che so in alcuni casi una frase può anche iniziare col TO.
 >> Vorrei pertanto una vostra gentile conferma su queste due righe:
 >>
 >> Can you help us?
 >> Sure. To provide you full assistance etc.etc.
 >
 > Si puì iniziare una frase con "to," ma l'esempio non è una frase
 > completa, è una clausa dipendente. Allora si può dire:
 > To provide you full assistance, we have a staff of trained professionals.
 >
 > The sentence or independent clause: we have a staff of trained
 > professionals.
 > The dependent clause: to provide you full assistance
 >
 > Si può dire anche: We have a staff of trained professionals to provide
 > you full assistance.
 >
 > Meglio dire: We have a staff of trained professionals who can fully
 > assist you.
 
 
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 con Sure. To provide ecc. ?
 
Sì. Nelle conversazioni si possano usare frasi incomplete e si capisce 
dal contesto.
 

"All the better to see you with."
 
"To improve customer service we will be closed on Thursdays."
 

 Can you help us?
 
[ ] Sure, what's the problem?!
 
[ ] Yah!, what's up?!
 
[ ] Sure, we usually eat problems for breakfast!, tell me more about
what's wrong with your stuff!
 
 
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