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Asked on May 8, 2021 in Phrases.
In ordinary speech, “speak” does not take a direct object. You can speak the words, you can speak to somebody, but “speak words” is unusual. I would say literary. Why does this happen? I except idioms like “speak my mind” and “speak the truth”, and also the construction “Speak English”, where the language looks syntactically like a direct object, but I actually think it is a verbal modifier, like an adverb).
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Asked on May 8, 2021 in Phrases.
In ordinary speech, “speak” does not take a direct object. You can speak the words, you can speak to somebody, but “speak words” is unusual. I would say literary. Why does this happen? I except idioms like “speak my mind” and “speak the truth”, and also the construction “Speak English”, where the language looks syntactically like a direct object, but I actually think it is a verbal modifier, like an adverb).
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Asked on May 7, 2021 in Phrases.
In ordinary speech, “speak” does not take a direct object. You can speak the words, you can speak to somebody, but “speak words” is unusual. I would say literary. Why does this happen? I except idioms like “speak my mind” and “speak the truth”, and also the construction “Speak English”, where the language looks syntactically like a direct object, but I actually think it is a verbal modifier, like an adverb).
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Asked on May 5, 2021 in Phrases.
In ordinary speech, “speak” does not take a direct object. You can speak the words, you can speak to somebody, but “speak words” is unusual. I would say literary. Why does this happen? I except idioms like “speak my mind” and “speak the truth”, and also the construction “Speak English”, where the language looks syntactically like a direct object, but I actually think it is a verbal modifier, like an adverb).
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Asked on May 4, 2021 in Phrases.
In ordinary speech, “speak” does not take a direct object. You can speak the words, you can speak to somebody, but “speak words” is unusual. I would say literary. Why does this happen? I except idioms like “speak my mind” and “speak the truth”, and also the construction “Speak English”, where the language looks syntactically like a direct object, but I actually think it is a verbal modifier, like an adverb).
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Asked on May 3, 2021 in Phrases.
In ordinary speech, “speak” does not take a direct object. You can speak the words, you can speak to somebody, but “speak words” is unusual. I would say literary. Why does this happen? I except idioms like “speak my mind” and “speak the truth”, and also the construction “Speak English”, where the language looks syntactically like a direct object, but I actually think it is a verbal modifier, like an adverb).
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Asked on May 2, 2021 in Phrases.
In ordinary speech, “speak” does not take a direct object. You can speak the words, you can speak to somebody, but “speak words” is unusual. I would say literary. Why does this happen? I except idioms like “speak my mind” and “speak the truth”, and also the construction “Speak English”, where the language looks syntactically like a direct object, but I actually think it is a verbal modifier, like an adverb).
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Asked on May 2, 2021 in Phrases.
In ordinary speech, “speak” does not take a direct object. You can speak the words, you can speak to somebody, but “speak words” is unusual. I would say literary. Why does this happen? I except idioms like “speak my mind” and “speak the truth”, and also the construction “Speak English”, where the language looks syntactically like a direct object, but I actually think it is a verbal modifier, like an adverb).
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Asked on April 28, 2021 in Phrases.
In ordinary speech, “speak” does not take a direct object. You can speak the words, you can speak to somebody, but “speak words” is unusual. I would say literary. Why does this happen? I except idioms like “speak my mind” and “speak the truth”, and also the construction “Speak English”, where the language looks syntactically like a direct object, but I actually think it is a verbal modifier, like an adverb).
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Asked on March 28, 2021 in Word choice.
What is proper first sentence?
There used to be some teachers who had a mad idea that there was something wrong with this, but they’ve mostly gone now.
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