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Perfect Stranger Posted 10 years ago
Grammar

[grammar] find you or find for you

Dear Users,

Are both sentences 100% correct and convey the same meaning?

1) I have to find for you a nice girl.
2) I have to find you a nice girl.

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Perfect Stranger 1) I have to find for you a nice girl. Avoid that, because you have put for before the object. You have to think three times before you put something between a verb and its object in English.

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  • Perfect Stranger 1) I have to find for you a nice girl.
  • Avoid that, because you have put for before the object.
  • You have to think three times before you put something between a verb and its object in English.
  • Funnily enough, that's no problem in Swedish even though it, too, is a Germanic language and just like English, Swedish nouns lack a case for objects.
  • You can say: I have to find a nice girl for you.
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Perfect Stranger1) I have to find for you a nice girl.
Avoid that, because you have put for before the object. You have to think three times before you put something between a verb and its object in English. Funnily enough, that's no problem in Swedish even though it, too, is a Germanic language and just like English, Swedish nouns lack a case for objec
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