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SSY Jung Posted 11 years ago
Grammar

Dear members

please have this gift (wrap/wrapped).

It seems to me that "wrapped" would be correct on the sentence."
But should I sometimes use "wrap" as well in different condition.?

Thanks in advance.

SSY
  

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"Please have this gift wrapped" would normally mean "Please get someone to wrap this gift", but in this case I would hyphenate "gift-wrapped". Without a hyphen it could conceivably be asking someone to accept a gift that has been wrapped. In speech the emphasis would be different for the two meanings.

— GPY

  • "Please have this gift wrapped" would normally mean "Please get someone to wrap this gift", but in this case I would hyphenate "gift-wrapped".
  • Without a hyphen it could conceivably be asking someone to accept a gift that has been wrapped.
  • In speech the emphasis would be different for the two meanings.
  • "Please have this gift wrap" is a way of offering someone some decorative wrapping paper; however, I would again hyphenate "gift-wrap".
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"Please have this gift wrapped" would normally mean "Please get someone to wrap this gift", but in this case I would hyphenate "gift-wrapped". Without a hyphen it could conceivably be asking someone to accept a gift that has been wrapped. In speech the emphasis would be different for the two meanings.

"Please have this gift wrap" is a way of offering someone some decorative wrapping paper
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