Is "we will connect to you" grammatically correct? [closed]

Am I right in thinking it does not make sense to say

someone will connect to another one.

Would the correct sentence be

someone will connect someone/something to another

or

someone will be connected to another one.

This is driven from my instinct so I have no idea how to prove it.


Mohammad, welcome! It is grammatically correct. You can noncontroversially say, for instance, "this power cord will connect to this adapter". However, "connect to" sounds unusual when it refers to people, where one would more typically use "connect with".

There is a discussion at “Connect to” vs. “Connect with”: Which is better? which highlights this point. Some participants mention that connect to refers to physical connection, while connect with is more virtual. This is not universally accepted, though. There are various examples of both in the thread.


I am not an English teacher or English major in college, but, am a person 70 years of age, and I'm appalled that people are now using the phrase, for example: "an officer arrested a suspect in connection to the crime".

In all of my years of listening closely to what sounds correct, and what I've heard all of my previous English teachers say, it seems 100% grammatically correct to say: "in connection with". Connected to something means: literally attached, in the physical sense. Therefore, no person can be physically attached to a crime.