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Anonymous Posted 17 years ago
Grammar
Drop ...off
What form is right, please:
a) John dropped off his application at an old store;
or
b) John dropped his application off at an old store;
or both forms are correct?
Thank you,
JC
a) John dropped off his application at an old store;
or
b) John dropped his application off at an old store;
or both forms are correct?
Thank you,
JC
Top answer
Both forms are correct. CJ
- Both forms are correct.
- CJ
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Statement (b) is correct.
This is because statement (a) implies that he dropped off his application, in the sense that he fell off it.
This is because statement (a) implies that he dropped off his application, in the sense that he fell off it.
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AnonymousStatement (b) is correct.Not to a native speaker, it doesn't.
This is because statement (a) implies that he dropped off his application, in the sense that he fell off it.
We don't speak in a vaccuum. If someone dropped off a cliff and someone else dropped of an application, you have no problem at all knowing which meaning to a
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Anonymousstatement (a) implies that he dropped off his application, in the sense that he fell off it.I don't see this at all. The ambiguity of the lexical item "drop off" supplies no basis for any such implication whatever. Just because a word can mean two things doesn't mean it doesmean some arbitrarily chosen one. In fact, the semantic cont
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