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Chan-Seung Lee
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 Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2008 6:41 pm Post subject: obtain |
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| In addition, the agency may be able to provide more services than you could obtain yourself. |
Is the quote correct?
I think that it is right that 'In addition, the agency may be able to provide more services than what you could obtain yourself.' rather than the quote because a transitive verb 'obtain' needs a object 'what'.
Could you tell me if I'm wrong.
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Bob S.
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| Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2008 2:14 pm Post subject: Re: obtain |
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| Chan-Seung Lee wrote: |
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| In addition, the agency may be able to provide more services than you could obtain yourself. |
Is the quote correct?
I think that it is right that 'In addition, the agency may be able to provide more services than what you could obtain yourself.' rather than the quote because a transitive verb 'obtain' needs a object 'what'.
Could you tell me if I'm wrong. |
The quote is fine. In that sentence, the "what" is understood and omitted to make the sentence more simple. Such pronouns in relative clauses are often dropped in colloquial English.
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