aaroncheng

instead后面可以加to么？（Ron）：

it's perfectly possible to have instead in front of an infinitive. for instance...

we decided not to eat at the restaurant, and instead to cook our own food at home.

technically, “instead…” modifies the verb “decided” (as does the other parallel structure), so there is no contradiction. but the point is that it's totally possible to have instead in front of to + verb.