I left a message to/with her.

I wrote a message to my girlfriend; then --

1. I left the message to my girlfriend with my secretary.-- 'To' indicates the addressee and 'with' indicates the immediate recipient.
2. I left the message with my girlfriend.-- 'With' indicates the immediate recipient.

Thank you M.C.

Because of my poor understanding, I didn't understand fully, sorry.

1. I left the message to my girlfriend with my secretary.-- 'To' indicates the addressee and 'with' indicates the immediate recipient.

Here you mean the secretary is the one who got the message from 'I' and delivers it to "my girlfriend?'

2. I left the message with

1-- Yes.
2-- Yes, she got it, but she won't deliver it to anyone else, since you wrote it to her.

Thank you again

'2-- Yes, she got it, but she won't deliver it to anyone else, since you wrote it to her.'

Then, in the case of 2, either 'to' or 'with' is the same, right? I left a message to/with her.

I don't think that is quite true; to me, 'with' suggests that it is to be passed on. It is just that in the case presented it is not intended to be passed on.

This is a little confusing to me.

I will quote some of our talks below:

"2-- Y2. I left the message with my girlfriend.-- 'With' indicates the immediate recipient.

Here you mean 'my girlfriend' got the message to deliver it to someone?

Yes, she got it, but she won't deliver it to anyone else, since you wrote it to her.

I don't think that is quit

"2-- Y2. I left the message with my girlfriend.-- 'With' indicates the immediate recipient. Here you mean 'my girlfriend' got the message to deliver it to someone? Yes, she got it, but she won't deliver it to anyone else, since you wrote it to her. I don't think that is quite true; to me, 'with' suggests that it is to be passed on."-- Yes, of course it does, but you will recall that I set u

Ah!!!!!!!!!1

I got it!!

It's now very clear to me..

"a message to the message" is thought to be one because "to the message" is an adjective describing "message."

Q1) Is it not ambiguous at all because the adjective here is not a complement but an adjunct?

It still confuses me a little though because some(or many) verbs are used with to to ex

Q1) Is it not ambiguous at all because the adjective here is not a complement but an adjunct?-- No, once one understands the sense of what is happening.

It still confuses me a little though because some(or many) verbs are used with to to express an addressee, aren't they?-- Sure.

Q2) So, should I just consider the verb leave a little special case when it comes to