Look Forward To
The highlighted (The New Paper, 31 May 2013) is wrong.
The writer has obviously misanalysed the to as being part of an infinitive, i.e. to study � an error that is exceedingly common in Singapore, even among members of the teaching profession.
It is worth remembering that there are two types of to: one is a preposition (e.g. Jane went to Munich last month); the other helps us form to-infinitives (e.g. to travel).
The to in the highlighted portion of the article is in fact a preposition: it belongs to the multiword verb look forward to, often also called a phrasal-prepositional verb because it has the structure verb+adverb+preposition.
As is required of prepositions, look forward to is followed by a noun, or something functioning as a noun, in this case the clause (more specifically, a noun clause) studying at the polytechnic ... supposed to start yesterday. If I am asked �What was he looking forward to?� the answer would be �Studying at the polytechnic ...�, not �Study at the polytechnic...�.
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