“There’s an irony to the PM’s solution to the crisis”, said a certain ‘commentator’ in a weekly magazine. “There is no guarantee of the strategy working - and then what ?”
How should we explain the grammatical significance of the two ‘tos’ and the ‘of’ - and indeed how justify the word ‘then’ hanging in the air ? As so often, we can see what the writer is getting at in those few words, but his English is awful.
To and Of
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