Look forward to hear from you?

[Cerberus™]

Chaz, keep your cool. This is not the place for political debate.

[Jayj]

Hey Chaz,

I suggest that you keep your rude comments to yourself if you don't have anything constructive to say. The majority of the people on this site are here to improve their English writing and reading abilities. Obviously we're going to make mistakes along the way and we sure don't need someone like you pointing those out. We have administrators and instructors who created this site to provide feedback.

We would appreciate it if you provide suggestions instead of what I call "open, rude comments."

So what if I put ACROSSED instead of ACROSS? That's a slight oversight.

Chill out Chaz. Noone's perfect.

Have a good one.

Jay

[Mehekasfar000]

You mean only native speakers can write flawlessly?

[Chaz26]

[Chaz26]

[Mehekasfar000]

[Parveen Kawsar]

I always write in my business e-mail -"I am looking forward to your reply".Is this sentence correct or not? I am confused.

[Alan]

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Hi Parveen,

I am looking forward to your reply is fine. The discussion has been about what verb form comes after 'to' in that construction and the accepted idiom is: I look forward to replying (verb) but the noun 'reply' in your sentence is fine.

I hope we can now leave the topic.

Alan
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[Chaz26]

What if the word "hear" acts as a bare infinitive in "I'm looking forward to hear from you."?

Would that still be erroneous? Do you think it will perfectly function as a noun?

[Topaze]

Chaz26,

Please, be reasonable. No matter how you twist this phrase, it's not going to be grammatically correct, at least by today's standards.

[Alan]

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Hi Chaz26,

I'm not really sure what it is you want. The idiom 'look forward to hearing' has already been explained. I really can't see how 'hear' can, according to you, be a 'bare infinitive' and a 'noun'. I leave to anyone else the choice to continue with this thread. Personally I have nothing more to say on the matter.

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[Chaz26]

Wow, I thought this forum is for learning? Why is everybody being rude now?

I am asking not because I want to "TWIST" it, but rather, to clear the other things that might make this phrase confusing. It is like a person asking for direction in case the other given routes are untraversable.

If asking questions is not allowed here, then you should remove the "post" function of members... or better yet, just make this a "read and go" site.

[Chaz26]

And oh, to Alan:

Do you still think those native speakers who say "looking forward to hear from you" are uneducated?

[Nick*]

To my understanding, in most cases the word “to” is used as an infinitive with a verb in its base form, e.g. to go, to do, to hear etc… .
In some cases, however, the word “to” acts as a preposition.
In the phrase “looking forward to”, the word “to” is a preposition only and hence followed by a noun, gerund, noun phrase, noun clause or any noun equivalent.
Since it is not an infinitive, therefore it should not be followed by a verb such as “to hear” which is grammatically incorrect anyway.

Nick