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Eipjoo Posted 13 years ago
Grammar

bring on

This incident will surely bring on a crisis.
Bring on the clowns.

Though ‘bring’ is a transitive verb, why does it followed by adverb on?
  

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I think the phrase bring on = have them come in .

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  • I think the phrase bring on = have them come in .
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I think the phrase bring on = have them come in.
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This incident will surely bring on a crisis.

Bring on means to instigate, or to cause something to happen.
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Correct me if I'm wrong but I'm quite certain that if we skip on the meaning will remain pretty much the same...
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Perfect StrangerCorrect me if I'm wrong but I'm quite certain that if we skip on the meaning will remain pretty much the same...
The meanings are not radically different, but they are different. A native speaker would not say "bring the clowns" when he means "bring on the clowns."
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eipjooThough ‘bring’ is a transitive verb, why does it followed by adverb on?
These are phrasal verbs. "on" is part of the verb.
As is sometimes the case, this phrasal verb (bring on) has more than one meaning.

1 bring on - cause; create. bring on a crisis
2 bring on - lead in; have (someone, something) enter. bring on the
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