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Liveinjapan Posted 18 years ago
Grammar

at a General Motors plant

She told reporters who had gathered to watch her tour a General Motors plant here that "everybody knew, you all knew, what the likely outcome of these recent contests were."

If you leave here out of this, should the sentence be at a General Motors plant?

Retated question:
Since gather is intransitive verb, if you want to put some words after gather, this only can take either "in" or "aroud" etc. + place, or "here/there", right?

Thanks
LiJ
  

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Hi LiJ, You can certainly remove here, but the sentence would not be clear to the readers since a GMP could be anywhere in the States. ) where the GMP is located; although the use of the article 'a' still does not say which GMP. Regarding gather , it could be either transitive or intransitive.

— Hoa Thai

  • Hi LiJ, You can certainly remove here, but the sentence would not be clear to the readers since a GMP could be anywhere in the States.
  • ) where the GMP is located; although the use of the article 'a' still does not say which GMP.
  • Regarding gather , it could be either transitive or intransitive.
  • , gather in the lobby).
  • And in the given context, tour was used as a transitive verb; thus, we cannot replace it with tour at.
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Hi LiJ,

You can certainly remove here, but the sentence would not be clear to the readers since a GMP could be anywhere in the States. Here helps restrict the location (ie., the state, the city, etc...) where the GMP is located; although the use of the article 'a' still does not say which GMP.

Regarding gather, it could be either transitive or intransitive.
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Hi Hoa Thai

Understand!
Thanks.

LiJ
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