Timeline for give a lift to or without "to"?
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| Sep 18, 2012 at 9:01 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackEnglish/status/247983604922187778 | ||
| Sep 17, 2012 at 16:24 | answer | added | Edwin Ashworth | timeline score: 0 | |
| Sep 17, 2012 at 15:32 | answer | added | Mitch | timeline score: 2 | |
| Sep 17, 2012 at 15:09 | vote | accept | PoTros | ||
| Sep 17, 2012 at 15:06 | answer | added | Barrie England | timeline score: 3 | |
| Sep 17, 2012 at 14:51 | comment | added | Mr. Shiny and New 安宇 | PoTros: you can't assume from the context that a missing article (a) is or isn't missing because it's a typo or because it's a different usage. | |
| Sep 17, 2012 at 14:48 | history | edited | PoTros | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 17, 2012 at 14:48 | comment | added | PoTros | Oh right, this is just a typo, of course from the context is clear am I asking about the "to" as the dictionary states "give sb a lift" (speaking about the ride) | |
| Sep 17, 2012 at 14:46 | comment | added | Andrew Leach♦ | Your question says But doesn't this mean that I can say "give lift to"? and A man who I gave lift to. Not "a lift". | |
| Sep 17, 2012 at 14:42 | comment | added | PoTros | @Andrew Leach What? I am asking whether the following are equivavlent and correct: "give sb a lift" and "give a lift to sb".. | |
| Sep 17, 2012 at 14:40 | history | edited | PoTros | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 17, 2012 at 14:31 | comment | added | Andrew Leach♦ | Why should "give a lift to" be equivalent to "give lift to"? "A lift" is specific; "lift" is general. Why do you think you can say "give lift to"? | |
| Sep 17, 2012 at 14:01 | history | edited | PoTros | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 17, 2012 at 13:43 | comment | added | RegDwigнt | The second and third example have nothing to do with lift and everything to do with give. Check out en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ditransitive_verb. The first example has little to do with anything as it stands, because it's incomplete. The to could be part of something else entirely. Quote the entire sentence. | |
| Sep 17, 2012 at 13:41 | history | edited | user11550 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 17, 2012 at 13:32 | history | edited | PoTros | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 17, 2012 at 13:13 | history | asked | PoTros | CC BY-SA 3.0 |