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Anonymous Posted 13 years ago
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parents' visit

Hi there, two questions about "visit":
1) could someone tell me please if "parents' visit" means both my parents visiting and a visit to my parents? just filling in a form, answering the question "what's the purpose of your trip?" as I'm going to see my parents.
2)As for "visit to " can it be used with people, as in "My visit to Paul went well."?
  

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Anonymous As for "visit to", can it be used with people, as in "My visit to Paul went well"? No, only places ( My visit to Paul’s house went well ). Anonymous Could someone tell me please if "parents' visit" means both my parents visiting and a visit to my parents?

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  • Anonymous As for "visit to", can it be used with people, as in "My visit to Paul went well"?
  • No, only places ( My visit to Paul’s house went well ).
  • Anonymous Could someone tell me please if "parents' visit" means both my parents visiting and a visit to my parents?
  • Only the former meaning is possible.
  • It won’t make any sense in this context.
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AnonymousAs for "visit to", can it be used with people, as in "My visit to Paul went well"?
No, only places (My visit to Paul’s house went well).
AnonymousCould someone tell me please if "parents' visit" means both my parents visiting and a visit to my parents?
Only the former meaning is possible. It won’t make
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Thank you. Just a bit confused as we learned at school that "Joe's picture" is ambiguous because it could be either the picture of Joe, in which case Joe is the object (similar to parents' visit-visiting parents) or a picture belonging to
Joe. Also, if "visit to" is only used with places, I should probably write "my visit to my parents' went well", meaning parents' place, shouldn't I? My dicti
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That is an anomalous case: my parents’ visit is free from ambiguity.
AnonymousAlso, if "visit to" is only used with places, I should probably write "my visit to my parents' went well", meaning parents' place, shouldn't I?
You may.
Anonymous"weekend visit with friends" - w
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