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OttoJ Posted 11 years ago
Grammar
Deny
We would say 'deprive somebody of' or 'strip someone of' or 'divest someone of'; so can I say this?
-It denies him (in dictionaries I can't find a following preposition here) of the perception.
-It denies him (in dictionaries I can't find a following preposition here) of the perception.
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No. "It denies him the perception" is grammatical, but "perception" is not an obvious word to use in this pattern, and I think more context is needed in order to properly judge how it would work.
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- "It denies him the perception" is grammatical, but "perception" is not an obvious word to use in this pattern, and I think more context is needed in order to properly judge how it would work.
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No. "It denies him the perception" is grammatical, but "perception" is not an obvious word to use in this pattern, and I think more context is needed in order to properly judge how it would work.
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