the following sentence is in one of my exercises:
‘According to the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich the first person to sail around the world was Ferdinand Magellan’
can you explain why it is ‘to sail’, not ‘sailing’?
thanks.
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Because the idea is that it is done; he is not sailing now:
The first man to sail around the world
The first man to stand on the Moon.
Someone to watch over me
etc.
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