Guarantee (me) that

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Can you add subject after guarantee in English?As long as you guarantee  that we won't lose, I'll come.

RandomGuy · Accepted Answer

Me isn't the subject; it's the object of guarantee. However, we is the subject in the that clause. Is that what you meant? If so, then the answer is yes. In any case, there are three subjects in the sentence: you, we, and I (will).

AlpheccaStars · Answer

AnonymousCan you add a subject after guarantee in English?

I think this is your question:

As long as you guarantee me that we won't lose, I'll come.

The verb guarantee does not normally take an indirect object (eg. me), so this sentence is unnatural. The indirect recipient of a guarantee is implied. In the case of emphasis, there can be an indirect object - eg. We won't lose, I guarantee (you)!

This is the way we would phrase it with the indirect object. We change guarantee to a noun.

As long as you give me a guarantee that we won't lose, I'll come.

RandomGuy · Answer

AlpheccaStarsAs long as you guarantee me that we won't lose, I'll come.
The verb guarantee does not normally take an indirect object (eg. me), so this sentence is unnatural. The indirect recipient of a guarantee is implied. In the case of emphasis, there can be an indirect object - eg. We won't lose, I guarantee (you)!
This is the way we would phrase it with the indirect object. We change guarantee to a noun.
As long as you give me a guarantee that we won't lose, I'll come.

The sentence is perfectly natural. I hear this use of guarantee very often. The word is similar to promise and assure, which also can take a person as an indirect object and a clause as the direct object.

Promise me that you will be careful.
I assure you that it will work out.

Of course, as you explained, the indirect object is often implied and is in most cases probably better off that way, but that doesn't make the inclusion of it wrong or "unnatural."

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