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Anonymous Posted 14 years ago
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prompt *sb* to do *sth* vs ...

What is the difference between "prompt sb to do sth" and "make sb to do sth"?

What prompted you to say that?
I don't know what prompted him to leave.
  

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I feel it is something like convincing someone to do something or deceiving someone to do something. But in making somebody to do something is like forcing sb to do sth. When I think about prompt as an adj, meaning of quick, and as a verb, meaning causing sth, and prompt as an adv, meaning of at the time stated and no later, I don't understand the relation between them.

— Anonymous

  • I feel it is something like convincing someone to do something or deceiving someone to do something.
  • But in making somebody to do something is like forcing sb to do sth.
  • When I think about prompt as an adj, meaning of quick, and as a verb, meaning causing sth, and prompt as an adv, meaning of at the time stated and no later, I don't understand the relation between them.
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I feel it is something like convincing someone to do something or deceiving someone to do something. But in making somebody to do something is like forcing sb to do sth.

When I think about prompt as an adj, meaning of quick, and as a verb, meaning causing sth, and prompt as an adv, meaning of at the time stated and no later, I don't understand the relation between them.
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youzouI don't understand the relation between them.
No relation. Well, there is probably an explanation of it in terms of the history of these words, but in modern English, it won't do you any good to try to work out the puzzle of why the meanings of prompt, the verb, are not very much like the meanings of prompt, the adjective or adverb. They
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