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b7lake
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 Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2008 2:30 am Post subject: teach / teach about |
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(1)He teaches us responsibility.
(2)He teaches us about responsibility.
Do both sentences have the same meaning?
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nicewitch
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| Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2008 8:45 am Post subject: |
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Hello !
I think they don't have the same meaning.
He teaches us responsibility < that means that he teaches us to be responsible. (It could be a parent teaching us to be responsible)
He teaches us about responsibility< that means that he is making a course about responsibility (The lessons could be made in a general way and in a classroom where a lot of people are already responsible)
so the second sentence is less personal and doesn't imply that we learning to be responsible only a course about responsibility)
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