does any one know if the grammar"to do so" has a name?if so what is it called?
Example: He climbed the tree to pick the apple, but he failed to do so.
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"to do so" would be called an "infinitive phrase" in English. Infinitive phrases are simply: an infinitive [to + verb] + any modifiers.
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If it has, I have no idea what it is. The important thing in language learning is know how use the correct forms. Nobody needs to know complicated grammatical terminology in order to use a language.
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I'm sure that someone, somewhere could invent a phrase to describe this, but the pattern exists simply because we don't see any point in repeating the whole sentence. Repeating parts of the sentence would sound like a joke or a song, or even childish. So, redundant parts are condensed or removed.
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/to do so/ is not a 'grammar', it is a language pattern.
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