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Guoguo914 Posted 11 years ago
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Commission sth from sb?
From today's NYT:
Archbishop John Hughes commissioned the cathedral from James Renwick Jr., the architect whose six-foot-high drawing of the west facade dates to 1853.
Shouldn't it be commission sth to sb?
Archbishop John Hughes commissioned the cathedral from James Renwick Jr., the architect whose six-foot-high drawing of the west facade dates to 1853.
Shouldn't it be commission sth to sb?
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guoguo914Shouldn't it be commission sth to sb?No. Your alternatives are as follows:
1. to commission someone to do something
2. to commission something from someone
1 is much more often seen than 2 even though the NYT excerpt uses 2.
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