[Grammar] is travelling around the world

[Oceanlike]

(a) Cooper's dream is to travel around the world.

(b) Cooper's dream is travelling around the world.

Are (a) and (b) both correct?

 

[emsr2d2]

They're both grammatically correct but only sentence #1 means what you want it to. Sentence #2 means that his dream is currently on a long holiday (travelling round the world)! Clearly that's not something a dream can do so it doesn't make sense.

 

[Tdol]

Sentence #2 means that his dream is currently on a long holiday (travelling round the world)!

Not Cooper, which seems fairly pointless.