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Bingley,
Moitié moitié (half & half)
The first <to> is used for expressing an aim/intention to “welcome”. My aim is to welcome daurelie so I am using it as preposition.
Well caught on the second, it is a preposition. That’ll teach me to be talking grammar at 10:42 p.m. (our time) when I got up at 5:00 in the a.m.
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In "wanted to welcome" I would have said "to" was part of the infinitive rather than a preposition, since prepositions are followed by noun phrases, pronouns, or -ing forms.
One of the problems in analysing English is that the same form of a word can function as different parts of speech: welcome is a prime example, acting as a noun (a welcome) or a verb (they welcome). To check whether it's acting as noun or verb substitute a word which has different forms, such as strengthen (verb) and strength (noun). We'd say wanted to strengthen rather than *wanted to strength .
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>welcome is a prime example, acting as a noun (a welcome) or a verb (they welcome)<
Or an adjective - the hot bath I had at the end of a long day today was most definitely welcome!
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A noun is a Naming word
A verb is a Doing word
An adjective is a describing word (tells us about the noun)
An adverb describes a doing word (tells us about the verb)
The way we were taught it all is (to me) the best way, sometimes, to teach others.
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Cathryn, welcome aBoard. I like that; thank you.
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I think that one of the best ways to become more familiar with your mother tongue in a structured grammatical way is to learn a foreign language - preferably Latin (!!!!!!!!), but more practically, one like German whiich has quite a few formal rules.
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The way we were taught it all is (to me) the best way, sometimes, to teach others.
I tend to agree.
Welcome back.
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Well, daurelie, I said this board was the fount of all wisdom, didn't I? You have a fair sample, here, of everything from Bingley's erudition and vast knowledge of the language, to Cathryns really useful rules of thumb, via shanks' and Fisk's interestingly discursive expositions. The only thing that hasn't happened yet is a descent to the gutter - but there's plenty of time for that to happen - just watch this space 
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Yo Rhuby Tuesday!
Was it you sent daurelie here? Why hasn't she posted any more?
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Note to self: Read thread before posting.
Repeat one hundred times.
Daily.
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