Tristan Alexander McLeay scripsit:
> Not if it takes `one' instead: `He voted Bob Brown one', although that's
> rare because people are more likely to say `He voted for the Greens'.
Whereas in the FPTP voting system that (most of) the rest of the Anglo
world uses, "He voted George Bush one" makes little or no sense!
> Incidentally, can anyone say what the `one' is there?
The sentence sounds parallel to "He called John stupid" to me.
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