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Re: THEORY: more questions

From:Tristan McLeay <zsau@...>
Date:Wednesday, November 26, 2003, 2:35
On Tue, 25 Nov 2003, Costentin Cornomorus wrote:

> I'm not sure what's wrong with "give it me".
Mostly the semantics. It's unlikely you're going to tell someone to give you to something. With no 'to', the two consecutive nouns go IO DO. (Of course, in American English, the jarring 'write me' is grammatically correct... Silly little Americans ... :) -- Tristan

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