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PostPosted: Mon Mar 19, 2007 4:50 pm    Post subject: friend Reply with quote

My friend asked me to buy this.

Could this sentence ever be used instead of:

My girlfriend asked me to buy this.

or:

My boyfriend asked me to buy this.
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 20, 2007 1:27 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yes, you could call your girlfriend / boyfriend just your friend, and that would be true, but it wouldn't please her or him to overhear it, because it would sound like you are trying to conceal that she is your girlfriend / he is your boyfriend. We may have many friends, but only one girlfriend or boyfriend. You wouldn't say "My relative / A close family member asked me to buy this" when you meant your wife or husband, would you?
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