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Tashiro Posted 14 years ago
Grammar

Grammar

Hi, please help me.

"The coroner elucidated the police on how the victim died."
Is this sentence grammatical?
  

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No, that's not how ELUCIDATED is used. You can use INFORMED, APPRISED, NOTIFIED and other words, but ELUCIDATE means "to illuminate and make clearly understandable". Saying that the coroner "elucidated the Police" implies that the coroner made the Police illuminated and clearly understandable.

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  • No, that's not how ELUCIDATED is used.
  • You can use INFORMED, APPRISED, NOTIFIED and other words, but ELUCIDATE means "to illuminate and make clearly understandable".
  • Saying that the coroner "elucidated the Police" implies that the coroner made the Police illuminated and clearly understandable.
  • You could say "The coroner ELUCIDATED the manner of the death of the victim TO the Police" but that sounds clumsy.
  • If the Police can be inferred from previous sentences, you could just say that the coroner ELUCIDATED the manner of the victim's death.
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No, that's not how ELUCIDATED is used. You can use INFORMED, APPRISED, NOTIFIED and other words, but ELUCIDATE means "to illuminate and make clearly understandable". Saying that the coroner "elucidated the Police" implies that the coroner made the Police illuminated and clearly understandable. You could say "The coroner ELUCIDATED the manner of the death of the victim TO the Police" but that sound
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