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Anonymous Posted 17 years ago
Grammar

Look after

Can we say "Look after (i.e. watch) him as he leaves. It looks like he may shoplift"?
  

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No. look after means to take care of, not watch.

— Nona the brit

  • No.
  • look after means to take care of, not watch.
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No.

look after means to take care of, not watch.
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Really? I thought it had also these meanings:

"Look later than X" and the other, "look in the direction of the departing X".

The latter is the one I have in mind here.
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e.g.

All the same Mrs. Nevill Tyson turned and looked after him as he was carried through the doorway. She could just see the downy back of his innocent head, ...

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So "look after", as used above, is not English, then?
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