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Is "to put something" grammatically correct?
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No for most people because "put" would require two complements - the object and the place. (It's a lot like a ditransitive verb, even not being one.) And in this case the place is missing, you'd expect it to be at most replaced with an adverb (e.g. "now I put the cheese there").
The exception I can think of as a native speaker is when the place is strongly implied. Like, "Now I put this..." and trail off, but it's obvious where I'm putting it because you're watching me put it somewhere that I've probably indicated multiple times already.
Caveat lector: I'm not a native speaker, so take what I'm saying with a grain of salt.
This exception seems to be a case of right-edge deletion - you're generating the sentence as if you were to utter the adverbial/prepositional complement, but then you chop the sentence just before the element. This can be shown by the following: