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Chan-Seung Lee

Joined: 03 Dec 2005
Posts: 1032

Posted: Mon Feb 23, 2009 9:15 pm Post subject: make

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1.All this makes writing a difficult craft that must be mastered through practice, instruction, feedback, and probably most important, intensive exposure to good examples.
2.All this makes writing into a difficult craft that must be mastered through practice, instruction, feedback, and probably most important, intensive exposure to good examples.
3. I insist that my students make stretching as much a part of their daily routines as brushing their teeth.
4.I insist that my students make stretching into as much a part of their daily routines as brushing their teeth.

I saw #1 and #3 in a book, which I think to be wrong sentences instead of which I think that #2 and #4 are correct. But I'm not sure if I'm wrong or right. Please tell me which one is correct, #1 or #2, #3 or #4?

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pugachevV

Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Posts: 2295

Posted: Tue Feb 24, 2009 7:35 am Post subject:

In your example #1, make is used in its sense of "cause to be". i.e. All this causes writing to be a difficult craft etc... In your example #3. make is used in its sense of cause to become I insist that my students cause stretching to become as much a part of etc... If you make something into it means you alter something so that it becomes something else. e.g. He made a lump of clay into a pot. He makes junk into art. And so on.

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