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Gene93 Posted 9 years ago
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Make someone something/make someone into something

Can you detect any differences between "His first album made him a star/His first album made him into a star"? For some reason I have a preference for the former.


Thank you.

  

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Gene93 For some reason I have a preference for the former. So do I. "made him into" does not seem very idiomatic to me.

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  • Gene93 For some reason I have a preference for the former.
  • So do I.
  • "made him into" does not seem very idiomatic to me.
  • It feels to me like a mix-up between "made him" and "turned him into".
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Gene93For some reason I have a preference for the former.

So do I. "made him into" does not seem very idiomatic to me. It feels to me like a mix-up between "made him" and "turned him into".

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