Hi, Ardith Hinton!
I read your message from 30.03.2023 21:52

  ak>>  Why do those Infinitives are without "to"?
  AH>           In formal English, the preposition is generally
  AH> included where it may not always be in colloquial speech.  What
  AH> I see here is a private conversation (i.e. you may notice turns of
  AH> phrase Miss Stickler didn't accept).  That's the easy explanation for
  AH> the last sentence... the other is more complex.  Although it struck me
  AH> as "not English" with the added preposition, I wasn't really sure why
  AH> until after wading through multiple definitions of the verb "to 
have".
  AH> It seems that if "have" means a third party will be asked &/or
  AH> required to do the job the preposition is omitted, as in the first
  AH> sentence you asked about.  :-)

Ok.
BTW, you called those "to"s as "propositions". But prepositions are put 
before nouns? For instance, in English textbook in Russia we call those 
"to"s as particles.

Bye, Ardith!
Alexander Koryagin
fido.english_tutor 2023
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