In order to ensure that he can attend the meeting,I called him up in advance.to在这里不是介词吗?

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In order to ensure that he can attend the meeting,I called him up in advance.to在这里不是介词吗?
为什么ensure后面不加ing?

因为in order to 后要接动词原形,即 to + 动原 构成不定式.