[Grammar] Using "just" as an adverb

[Sahil Dhankhar]

Consider following sentences.


1:-I just have to go to London.
2:-I have just to go to London.


Please tell me is 2nd sentence right ,if it is right then does it have sense different than the first sentence?

 

[Tdol]

2 is OK, and it means that this is the only place you have to visit.

 

[konungursvia]

I don't find 2 natural, but find 1 acceptable, but that's just my opinion.

 

[Matthew Wai]

I don't find 2 natural

Is it as unnatural as 'I want just to ...'?

 

[konungursvia]

Yes, in my view.

 

[emsr2d2]

2 is grammatical but unnatural (we say that so often!)

 

[Matthew Wai]

I often think that it should be forgivable for non-native speakers like me to say something grammatical but unnatural.

Not a teacher.

 

[Sahil Dhankhar]

2 is OK, and it means that this is the only place you have to visit.

Dear sir ,
I tried google searches for many options and all of them fetched adequate results.
"have to just go to" fetched 22,90,000 results
"have to just to go to" fetched 11,50,000 results
"have just to go to" fetched 14,60,000 results

which of the above are correct when I want to convey the same sense as stated by you (his is the only place you have to visit.)

 

[Matthew Wai]

Why not say 'London is the only place I have to go'?

Not a teacher.

 

[bhaisahab]

"have to just to go to" is completely incorrect. It doesn't mattere how many hits you got for it on Google.

 

[Sahil Dhankhar]

Yes sir ,It was my bad that instead of google book searches ,I searched the whole web.

now according to google books search results:-]
"have to just go to" fetched 3,100 results
"have to just to go to" fetched only 2 results
"have just to go to" fetched [FONT=arial, sans-serif]1,340 results[/FONT]
[FONT=arial, sans-serif]so you were right,2 is completely wrong but as both 1 and 3 got adequate search results ,will you please tell me that do they have same sense or there is some difference between them ?[/FONT]

 

[Raymott]

Everything comes with a context. None of your results validates the original #2.
However, this is possible:

Person A: Look at this timetable. I have to swap trains three times!
Person B: Are you going to Stockholm?
Person A: No. I have to just to go to London. [I have to swap trains three times just to go to London.]

That could occur in a book, as could the others. But as an isolated sentence, it's nonsense. Books also contain dialogue, and sometimes dialogue is not even written to be grammatical. The author knows when he writes it that it isn't grammatical. The same occurs in grammar books when the author writes ungrammatical sentences merely to point out that they're wrong. All these things turn up in a search. It's not a recommendation that they be used.

 

[Sahil Dhankhar]

Dear sir,You are also right.

 

[Rover_KE]

Sahil, there is no need to keep writing 'Dear sir', and your clicks on the Thank and Like buttons were sufficient to signify your appreciation and agreement.