Timeline for What is the difference between 'take a walk' and ' walk'
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| Jun 22, 2015 at 21:35 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackEnglish/status/613098105278480385 | ||
| Jun 17, 2015 at 19:51 | answer | added | joseph_morris | timeline score: 6 | |
| Jun 17, 2015 at 19:13 | answer | added | Fattie | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jun 17, 2015 at 17:24 | comment | added | Ishan Yadav | @......the answers are comments. Fair enough for your followers? | |
| Jun 17, 2015 at 17:14 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | These are delexical verb constructions. 'Take a walk' and 'walk' are similar in meaning but not in the way they are used. These are both unnatural: << 'How did he get to Bristol?'_ 'He took a walk.' >> & << 'Where were you an hour ago?'_ 'I walked.' >> Often, the two are more readily interchangeable, but the non-delexical structures often tend to sound stilted and unidiomatic. // The MWV ('phrasal verb' to some) 'pass out' has a totally different meaning from those of the simplex verb 'pass': eg When offered the wasabi, he passed / passed out. | |
| Jun 17, 2015 at 17:01 | comment | added | John Lawler | The same difference as there is between take a drink and drink, have a look and look, give a shove and shove. I.e, no difference at all in meaning, but two extra syllables in form. Sometimes you want some extra syllables, to make what you say sound important, or to give you time to think what to say next. | |
| Jun 17, 2015 at 16:51 | history | asked | 박용현 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |