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sejpdw
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Location: Korea
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 Posted: Thu Apr 27, 2006 10:01 pm Post subject: give |
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I've read this sentence.
'Since a plant is normally a very welcome present, many of us give one without thinking carefully about how difficult it can be to look after it. '
In my opinion, just ' give one' is incorrect. 'give one to others' is correct.
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nostril5
Joined: 18 Oct 2004
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| Posted: Fri Apr 28, 2006 1:31 am Post subject: Hi |
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You wrote:  'Since a plant is normally a very welcome present, many of us give one without thinking carefully about how difficult it can be to look after it. '
In my opinion, just ' give one' is incorrect. 'give one to others' is correct.
What's your opinion?
 No. The sentence is fine. Your sentence would be possible grammatically, but 'foreign' sounding as 'give' implies 'to others' and thus, these last 2 words would be redundant.
I hope this helps. 
Mike |
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