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mings
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 Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2006 8:21 pm Post subject: share |
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Can I use "share" in the following sentence?
"I do share with your predicament but things could be a lot worse, you know."
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iitimone7
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| Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2006 12:23 pm Post subject: share |
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this sentence is correct. you may also leave out do...
i share with your predicament...
i share your predicament...
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LucentShade
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| Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2006 11:49 pm Post subject: |
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| I don't know about the "with"--to me, "share with" needs an indirect object, as in "I share my toy cars with my younger brother." |
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iitimone7
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| Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2006 6:42 am Post subject: share |
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i share with you your predicament...that might be better, but it's difficult to say. you is understood here, so i share your predicament is fine.
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advoca
Joined: 09 Oct 2003
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| Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2006 11:26 pm Post subject: Re: share |
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| mings wrote: |
Can I use "share" in the following sentence?
"I do share with your predicament but things could be a lot worse, you know." |
The answers are interesting to me. As a Brit it seems strange to say, "share with a predicament." We would say, "I understand your predicment..." If we wanted to emphasis how we understood your predicament we would say, ""I do understand your predicment..."
This illustrates how Americans and Brits do not express themselves in the same way.
What about Canadians, Lorikeet? |
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bud
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| Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2006 12:31 pm Post subject: |
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| In my experience, we in the U.S. use the same wording, Advoca. I'd only say, "I share your predicament," if I was in the same situation as the listener. |
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