He left all he had to found an open entrance scholarship to the school
VS
He had left all to found an open entrance scholarship to the school.
- what is the difference between these sentences? also,
- after to we should use present form of verb(find) but here writer used past form of verb(found)….why?
Best Answer
These two sentences have similar meanings:
Here "left" is used in the sense of "to bequeath," to pass on belongings or wealth after death. The word "found" here is not the past tense of "to find," but rather the infinitive of a different verb, "to found:"