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02-06-2006, 01:30 PM
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Can You Answer My Grammar Question?
Yesterday, my brother said, "Hand me the book." Then he wondered, "Should I have said, 'Hand the book to me?'" So now I have to know! Is "Hand me the book" wrong? Is "Hand the book to me" perferable? Can someone tell me?
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02-06-2006, 01:39 PM
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Both are fine.
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02-06-2006, 02:40 PM
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Both are proper english as far as I can see. 
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02-06-2006, 02:45 PM
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But do you know for sure? Where's mammamaia?
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02-06-2006, 04:32 PM
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Yes, both are correct.
In "Hand the book to me", the subject is the understood you, hand is the verb, book is the direct object, and to me is a prepositional phrase.
In "Hand me the book", it's the same except you took "to" out of the prepositional phrase and put is after the verb, making it the indirect object. The second is more economical.
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Last edited by Achilles : 02-06-2006 at 04:58 PM.
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02-06-2006, 06:12 PM
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Ink Slinger
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Originally Posted by galt
But do you know for sure? Where's mammamaia?
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Perhaps this should have been a PM if you can't believe what the others have said? |
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02-07-2006, 01:37 PM
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Originally Posted by Achilles
Yes, both are correct.
In "Hand the book to me", the subject is the understood you, hand is the verb, book is the direct object, and to me is a prepositional phrase.
In "Hand me the book", it's the same except you took "to" out of the prepositional phrase and put is after the verb, making it the indirect object. The second is more economical.
Achilles
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Great. Thanks, Achilles, and others, for your input. |
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02-07-2006, 05:19 PM
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i'm sure galt was just kidding... no need to chastise him for it, drz... the question's been answered pretty well... so, no need for me to say more than 'ditto the above'...
hugs, 'mamma'
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02-07-2006, 05:53 PM
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Sounded more to me like going into a classroom of people studying Spanish and then asking "Well, where's the Spanish exchange student?"
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02-07-2006, 08:24 PM
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'Hand me the book' is active voice, while 'hand the book to me' is more passive (though not necessarily defintieively so.
'Hand me the book' is therefore more correcterer ...
Refer to Gohn's quote as to whether this can be taken seriously.
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