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Ljswave Posted 13 years ago
Grammar

Did you lend out all your books? vs Did you lend all your books?

My question is for phrasal verb.
I'mnot a English native speaker, so I can't see why it should be written "out" in the sentences because I think "lend" is just enough to make sence in the sentence without "out" .
I'd like to know how it works.
Q1. Would you please show about it easily?

Q2. Is #2 grammatical? or not?

#1- Did you lend out all your books?
#2- Did you lend all your books?

This type of expressions that makes me feel like that.

#A- He rents out his house at the beach.
#B- He rents his house at the beach.
  

Top answer

These have the same meaning. #1- Did you lend out all your books? #2- Did you lend all your books?

  • These have the same meaning.
  • #1- Did you lend out all your books?
  • #2- Did you lend all your books?
  • These do not have the same meaning.
  • #A- He rents out his house at the beach.
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These have the same meaning.
#1- Did you lend out all your books?
#2- Did you lend all your books?

These do not have the same meaning.
#A- He rents out his house at the beach. He owns the house and other people rent it. He does not live in it.
#B- He rents his house at the beach. Ambiguous. The house mig

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