Timeline for What’s the difference between “come recommended” and “be recommended”?
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| Apr 20, 2012 at 3:37 | comment | added | pbr | I'm sorry, but I know I don't have anything "round way wrong" here. I recommend you re-read my post. It's the VERB - "come" vs. "been" - you've mixed them as if they were interchangable in your answer as well, and they're not. | |
| Apr 19, 2012 at 4:52 | comment | added | Amos M. Carpenter | I'm sorry, but I think you've got something the round way wrong here. You seem to think that "someone who has been recommended" is the person to whom something or someone has been recommended, but in fact it is the person who has been recommended (in this case to the piano shop owner). The point of the OP's excerpt is that the shop owner doesn't want to sell a piano to someone who hasn't been recommended to him, i.e. he doesn't want to sell to someone who comes without an endorsement. | |
| Apr 19, 2012 at 4:24 | comment | added | zpletan | I don't know what, exactly, but could you provide some sort of reference? Your conclusion is at odds with @FumbleFinger's, and both of them make sense to me. | |
| Apr 19, 2012 at 4:21 | comment | added | zpletan | That last comment I would probably put in your answer, as it greatly clarifies what you're saying. | |
| Apr 19, 2012 at 4:09 | comment | added | pbr | It's about the "coming" and the "going" from the store - the act of showing up, as opposed to the being identified. Someone who comes recommended to my team has walked in the door and handed me a resume, stating, "Joe sent me - he says you'll love me". Someone who has been recommended to my team (by Joe) needs to be contacted about whether they can come to visit. | |
| Apr 19, 2012 at 4:07 | comment | added | pbr | Nope. You've reduced it to 2 cases, where there are 4. They've come into the store, because they were recommend to come there - as opposed to someone who was not recommended to come into the store. Both of those are very different than the cases where someone gives a buyer Deforge's name and address (Deforges has been recommended) or the converse (a buyer has been recommended to Deforges). | |
| Apr 19, 2012 at 3:57 | comment | added | zpletan | So you're saying that been recommended means that the person's name has been given to Deforges', while come recommended means that Deforges' name has been given to the customer? | |
| Apr 19, 2012 at 3:49 | history | answered | pbr | CC BY-SA 3.0 |