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Anonymous Posted 16 years ago
Grammar

Implied Preposition in

If I want to combine the following two sentences:

"I gave a good grade to Adam."
"I passed Adam." (as in a teacher passing a student in a class)

into one, can I use

"I gave a good grade to and passed Adam."
or

"I gave a good grade and passed Adam." ?

Can the preposition "to" be implied in the second sentence?

If order does not matter, I suppose I can reverse the two actions:
"I passed and gave a good grade to Adam."
But "passed" in this case could mean I passed someone other than Adam?

If wordiness does not matter, I can also use:
"I gave a good grade to Adam and passed Adam."

If "to" can be implied, can any other prepositions also be implied?
  

Top answer

" ? To combine those, say I gave Adam a good grade and passed him. to is unnecessary.

— CalifJim

  • " ?
  • To combine those, say I gave Adam a good grade and passed him.
  • to is unnecessary.
  • Repeating Adam is unnecessary.
  • Anonymous If "to" can be implied, can any other prepositions also be implied?
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AnonymousIf I want to combine the following two sentences:
"I gave a good grade to Adam."
"I passed Adam." (as in a teacher passing a student in a class)
into one, can I use
"I gave a good grade to and passed Adam."
or
"I gave a good grade and passed Adam." ?
To combine those, say

I gave Adam a good grade a
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