Join us or join with us
CalifJimTwo comments.
1. This was written quite a long time ago, and English has changed in some of its details since then (assuming it's from Treasure Island).
2. The author is trying to write as these sailors and pirates would have talked at that time long ago, so even for the people of his own time some of this dialog would not have sounded like the way they spoke (unless they too were sailors or pirates, of course).
Books which were written more than 50 years ago and/or in specialized dialects will not necessarily reflect today's standard English. It is well to ask what these things mean, but I would advise you not to borrow the old-fashioned and strange phrases you find in these books to use in your own spoken or written English.
That's a very long way of saying that "Join with us" in that book would most likely be written "Join us" if it were written today.
CJ
That's a good explanation. Put simply, including the word with is unnecessary now. That word is superfluous.
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Thank you, anonymous. In that text book, four or five times the word "join" has been used, but only with one of them the word "with" has been used. The others have been used without "with".
- Thank you, anonymous.
- In that text book, four or five times the word "join" has been used, but only with one of them the word "with" has been used.
- The others have been used without "with".
- I saw the original version, but it didn't contain either "join" or "join with".
- I think it (with) has incorrectly been added after "join" in that textbook that I have.
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Thank you, anonymous.
In that text book, four or five times the word "join" has been used, but only with one of them the word "with" has been used. The others have been used without "with". I saw the original version, but it didn't contain either "join" or "join with". I think it (with) has incorrectly been added after "join" in that textbook that I have. There are some other mistakes in
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