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User_gary Posted 19 years ago
Grammar

about (so as to be use of it)

so as to be of use to: Keep your wits about you.

After I come across the above meaning of `about', I wrote the following sentences on my own. Please suggest whether it is right or wrong.

(1) Keep the pen about you.

(2) Keep this evidence about releasing the innocent.

Please help me.

  

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(1) Keep the pen about you . -- (Meaning: carry the pen at all times) (2) Keep this evidence for the innocent person's release about you . -- Your original confuses two meanings of 'about'.

— Mister Micawber

  • (1) Keep the pen about you .
  • -- (Meaning: carry the pen at all times) (2) Keep this evidence for the innocent person's release about you .
  • -- Your original confuses two meanings of 'about'.
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(1) Keep the pen about you. -- (Meaning: carry the pen at all times)

(2) Keep this evidence for the innocent person's release about you. -- Your original confuses two meanings of 'about'.
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Mister Micawber(2) Keep this evidence for the innocent person's release about you. -- Your original confuses two meanings of 'about'.

I don't understand about the above sentence, can explain? Thanks.

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What do you not understand about it?
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Doesn't it mean keep the evidence with you all the time?
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Keep this evidence [about releasing the innocent] - "on the subject of releasing the innocent".
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