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Osee Posted 19 years ago
Vocabulary

accompany = companion as verbs?

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0Hi,02br 02br 00The verb 'accompany' is much the more common of the two. 02br 02br 00In everyday English, you'd more often hear things like 'Tom01i 00 went with02i 00 Mary'. 02br 02br 00Best wishes, Clive0-

— Clive

  • 0Hi,02br 02br 00The verb 'accompany' is much the more common of the two.
  • 02br 02br 00In everyday English, you'd more often hear things like 'Tom01i 00 went with02i 00 Mary'.
  • 02br 02br 00Best wishes, Clive0-
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0Hi,02br
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00The verb 'accompany' is much the more common of the two. To me, the verb 'companion' suggests more intimacy.02br
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00In everyday English, you'd more often hear things like 'Tom01i00 went with02i00 Mary'. 02br
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00Best wishes, Clive0-
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0I have to say that I've never heard "companion" used as a verb! I didn't even know it could be used that way.0-
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01cite10Grammar Geek12cite10I have to say that I've never heard "companion" used as a verb! I didn't even know it could be used that way.12br
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10Then I am glad I can help here, as a thank-you for your many perfect answers to my questions!02br
00The following are taken from Merriam-Webst
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0 I've never heard companion used as a verb either. 0-
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0Would it be possible to double-check that, please? That's three of us who have 01u00never02u00 encountered 01i00companion02i00 as a verb, and would consider a sentence such as "he companioned me to the station" absurd.0-
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1font00Hi guys,02font02br
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01font00If you search Google for various tenses/forms, you'll find a very modest number of entries like these, most of them literary.02font02br
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01font00The word as a verb is also in my dictionary.02font02br
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