Are these two sentences both right?
1.the first thing I do every morning is take plenty of exercise.
2.the first thing i want to do is to visit him.
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If they both are right, why "to" is ommited in the first sentence.
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In the first sentence, "do" matches with "take". In the second sentence "to do" matches with "to visit". The main verb in the second sentence is actually "want".
That said, I think the "to" before "visit" can be omitted anyway.
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The second sentence is good. The first one needs a touch:
1.the first thing I do every morning is to get plenty of exercise.
Sometimes in a sentence like this people will omit the 'to', but I believe that is slang. A proper sentence should include it, to my knowledge.
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