Re: To non-native English writers: expunging the solecism "This allows to do something."

[Richard Stallman]

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  > This does, however, also return several false positives, most of them
  > with "require" (one is written as `require' and one or two of the others
  > should probably be quoted like that).

I don't know for certain what you found, but "require to do" has the
same English usage rules as "permit to do" or "allow to do": the
entity that will do it must be stated.

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