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MrPernickety Posted 17 years ago
Vocabulary

A question about room service

Hi,

Could you correct these sentences if you have any problem with them, please?

1. I called room service and ordered them to bring me a dinner

2. To procure me a dinner I caller room service

Thanks !
  

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Both are grammatically possible (apart from the "called" typo in #2) but neither is very natural. In #1, "ordered them to" would often be too harsh, and "a dinner" is usually just "dinner". In #2, "procure me" is kind of quaint, and "procure" is in any case too formal and technical a word for this context.

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  • Both are grammatically possible (apart from the "called" typo in #2) but neither is very natural.
  • In #1, "ordered them to" would often be too harsh, and "a dinner" is usually just "dinner".
  • In #2, "procure me" is kind of quaint, and "procure" is in any case too formal and technical a word for this context.
  • Usually you would say something like "I called room service and ordered dinner" or "I called room service and asked them to bring me dinner".
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Both are grammatically possible (apart from the "called" typo in #2) but neither is very natural.

In #1, "ordered them to" would often be too harsh, and "a dinner" is usually just "dinner".

In #2, "procure me" is kind of quaint, and "procure" is in any case too formal and technical a word for this context.

Usually you would say something like "I called room service and
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