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Penicillin Posted 21 years ago
Grammar

Question

Which one is correct?

- Answer to my question.

- Answer my question.

Thanks for your assistance.
  

Top answer

Only the second one is correct. "answer" is used as a verb in your examples. However, you can say, "No one gave me an answer to my question" or "That was a good answer to my question".

— Anonymous

  • Only the second one is correct.
  • "answer" is used as a verb in your examples.
  • However, you can say, "No one gave me an answer to my question" or "That was a good answer to my question".
  • In this case "answer" is a noun, and " an answer / the answer to my question" is possible.
  • CJ
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Only the second one is correct. "answer" is used as a verb in your examples.
However, you can say, "No one gave me an answer to my question" or "That was a good answer to my question". In this case "answer" is a noun, and "an answer / the answer to my question" is possible.

CJ
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I choose "answer my question". But I'm not sure my answer to your question is correct.

paco
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Onh1986Which one is correct?

- Answer to my question.

- Answer my question.

Thanks for your assistance.

- Give me an answer

You can't say : Give to me an answer
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The correct thing to say is "Answer my question" (without to).

Onh1986, you cannot say "Give to me an answer" because it should either be "Give an answer to me" (I doubt anyone uses this but still it is grammatically correct) or "Give me an answer" (i.e. give sth to sb or give sb sth). In the exmaple "an answer" is the direct object and "me" is the indirect object; when the
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