Aubrey Carter
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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.
Yeah, this will never be followed by a verb I-N-G.
It's always that infinitive, to and the verb.
Same meaning, but yeah, and we could say resist the urge to and fight the temptation, but these are kind of chunks.
This is how you'll hear it most often.
Fight the urge and resist the temptation.
Temptation.
We've all been there.
Or I'm trying to resist the temptation to skip my workout after a long day.
That's me.
If I wait and try to work out later at night when I'm tired, I'm usually going to have a hard time resisting the temptation to not do it.
Um, tricky, right?