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I said in the last post that when “to” acts as a preposition it is usually followed by an –ing form or a noun/noun phrase.

上一次我们说到，当“to”用作介词时什么是动词英语，后面经常会跟着动词-ing形式或者名词/名词性词组。

Now we will look at exceptions to this rule.

现在，我们来看看这个规则有哪些例外的情况。

The most important exception relates to the verb “agree”. You may use an infinitive verb after “agree to”. For example:

这其中最重要的一项是关于动词“agree”的。“agree to”后面要跟动词不定式。

If you try to use –ing forms in these examples in a document written on Microsoft Word, you’ll find that “deleting” and “extending” are underlined in green. This is because Word’s grammar check knows about this exception.

当你在Word里打字时什么是动词英语技巧:【英语写作】什么情况下“to”可以加动词-ing （2），要是在以上这些例子后面加上了动词的-ing形式，你会发现你打的“deleting”和“extending”下面有绿色的波浪号出现。这是因为Word的语法检查能查出这些。

“Agree” is not the only verb covered by this exception. Others are “consent”, “entitled” “inclined” and “prone”.

“agree”不是唯一的例外。还有“consent”“entitled”“inclined”和“prone”。

Here are some examples:

这里举出了一些例子：

More on “agree to”

“agree to”的更多说明

However, there is a difference in meaning between “agree to + -ing” and “agree to + infinitive”. Let’s make a comparison:

但是“agree to + -ing” 和“agree to + 不定式”在意思上还是有区别的。让我们来比较一下这个例子：

The first one means I am not going to delete Section 3.7 myself; whereas the second sentence means I don’t want Section 3.7 to be deleted by anybody.

第一句句子意思是我不会自己去删掉3.7节什么是动词英语，但第二句句子表达的是我不希望任何人删掉3.7节。

If you find it difficult to see the difference in meaning, try replacing the -ing form with a noun phrase:

如果你觉得要看出其中的差异有点难，那你可以试着用一个名词性词组来代替动词-ing形式：

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