Learn English – “to getting” vs. “to get”

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Some examples (they are book titles):

to Getting

  1. The Essential Guide to Getting Your Book Published
  2. The Guide to Getting it On

vs. to get

  1. The Ultimate Guide To Get Out Of Debt
  2. A Quick & Easy Guide to get You Started Making Money

So what is the difference in meaning?
What is the grammatical structure? and How can I decide which structure to use?

Thanks

Best Answer

The previous answers are not quite right, but it's a very tricky question.

The third example, "to get out of debt" is a bit of an exception. One reason to use 'get' instead of 'getting' here is because get makes a nice rhyme with debt, for the purpose of selling books. So I wouldn't use that one as an example of typical usage.

I think the default is actually 'getting' instead of 'get.'

However, it seems that 'getting' would feel unnatural in the last example. I think the issue here is that the 'get' in that example is used in a more complex way, where the real verb is not 'get,' but "get started", and "get started" has a double complement. Who got started? you. What did you get started doing? making money. This is not true of the other examples.