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PonyFan Posted 13 years ago
Grammar

Bring

"For you see, the mythical Mare in the Moon is in fact Nightmare Moon, and she’s about to return to Equestria, and bring with her eternal night!"

Although the verb bring has no object, does that work as natural grammar? Thanks in advance!

The line is quoted from
at 04:41
The transcription is in http://mlp.wikia.com/wiki/Transcripts/Friendship_is_Magic,_part_1
  

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PonyFan bring has no object Its object is eternal night .

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  • PonyFan bring has no object Its object is eternal night .
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PonyFanbring has no object
Its object is eternal night.
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So can you paraphrase "bring with" for the verb "carry"?
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PonyFanSo can you paraphrase "bring with" for the verb "carry"?
No. Bring with her eternal night means bring eternal night with her. In formal English, prepositional phrases often intervene between a verb and its object.
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Aha! So the structure of the phrase is "bring(verb)/with her(prepositional phrase)/eternal night(object)", correct?
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PonyFanSo the structure of the phrase is "bring(verb)/with her(prepositional phrase)/eternal night(object)", correct?
Exactly!
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Does this kind of structure(verb+prepositional phrase+object) have commonplace?
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Is it common, you mean? Not so much in conversation.
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