Aubrey Carter
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
So remember that this is keep yourself from doing something.
And then that doing can be replaced by any verb ing.
All right.
The next one is fight the urge to.
So very similar.
I had to fight the urge to check my phone during the meeting.
I think we all have this constant urge to check our phones.
We have to fight the urge to just glance at our phones.
It's a problem.
It's like problematic.
We have much more sedentary lives because we can constantly be entertained with TV shows and phones.
And once upon a time, that wasn't the case.
If I'm running, I hit a mile and I'm just like, I hit a brick wall.
I can't get past it.
If you have even with a good podcast or music, I still am like, I would rather be doing something else while listening to this.
Yeah.
So this is followed by an infinitive.
So you see here, I had to fight the urge to check, to check my phone or fight the urge to quit, to quit after the first smile.
So you have to have to with that bare verb.
It's an infinitive.