Timeline for “Make sure to” vs. “Make sure you”
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| Sep 16, 2021 at 16:39 | comment | added | GArthurBrown | @TimRogers Again, this isn't dealing with the command, which seems to be the question. Make sure to do something. Make sure you do something. | |
| Sep 15, 2021 at 23:25 | comment | added | Xanne | You can search Google Ngram for “make sure you *” and “make sure to *”. The second is less common in both British and American English. books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=make+sure+you+*%2Cmake+sure+to+*&year_start=1800&year_end=2019&corpus=29&smoothing=3 | |
| Sep 15, 2021 at 22:44 | comment | added | DjinTonic | The example was for translating presumably correct British English into French. | |
| Sep 15, 2021 at 21:26 | vote | accept | Tim Rogers | ||
| Sep 15, 2021 at 21:26 | comment | added | Tim Rogers | OK fair enough, although [1842] and [1810] are related to translating from other languages and [1898] and [1934] are American English. The Yorkshire Dialect Society clinches it for me as no doubt they would have made sure to use correct grammar. The grating has already stopped. Thank you! | |
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| Sep 15, 2021 at 19:05 | comment | added | DjinTonic | @TimRogers It isn't recent. I've added some examples. | |
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| Sep 15, 2021 at 18:03 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | Please check for duplicates before answering. There's far too much bloat on ELU already, and it makes searches far more time-consuming. | |
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| Sep 15, 2021 at 17:54 | comment | added | Tim Rogers | Well that shows that my impression that this is a recent usage is correct. See also BrE make sure you remember. What I'd really like to know though is whether the new usage is grammatically correct. | |
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| Sep 15, 2021 at 17:43 | history | answered | DjinTonic | CC BY-SA 4.0 |