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Anonymous Posted 14 years ago
Grammar
Leave/ let me alone
1. Let me alone. = Stop bothering me, you idiot! Go away!
2. Leave me alone. = Thank you for offering to be with me, but I prefer to be alone right now.
Some people insist on the distinction made in those two sentences.
What is your opinion?
Thank you.
2. Leave me alone. = Thank you for offering to be with me, but I prefer to be alone right now.
Some people insist on the distinction made in those two sentences.
What is your opinion?
Thank you.
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James M - 1. Let me alone. = Stop bothering me, you idiot!
- James M - 1.
- Let me alone.
- = Stop bothering me, you idiot!
- Go away!
- 2.
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James M-I would take either expression (uttered somewhat curtly, I imagine) with the meaning given for the first.
1. Let me alone. = Stop bothering me, you idiot! Go away!
2. Leave me alone. = Thank you for offering to be with me, but I prefer to be alone right now.
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What is your opinion?
I would take only the second expression (uttered
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