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even there are more and more people who can afford buying a car every day,it is still suggested to using the public traffic system
in the sentence above ,is it grammatically right to use 'to ' after suggest?
and why it is used a gerund after the verb afford?
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Re: afford

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Afford TO BUY is the only correct construction!
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