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Anonymous Posted 19 years ago
Grammar

Give, he said he was going to.

Is this grammatical? -- "But give, he said he was going to."
  

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It's hard to make it make sense. Can you give the entire context in which you envision using this?

  • It's hard to make it make sense.
  • Can you give the entire context in which you envision using this?
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It's hard to make it make sense. Can you give the entire context in which you envision using this?
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Thanks, yeah, I realize that. Here's some context: "She had never seen parents who visited their children to take from rather than give to them. But give, he (the parent) said he was going to."
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It's awkward, and needs a comma after "said."

But he said that he was going to give.
But he was, he said, going to give.
But give, he said, was what he was going to do.
But give, he said, he was going to [do].

In descending order from "normal" to unusual.

There are probably other variations as well.

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