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PreciousJones Posted 13 years ago
Grammar

Semicolon

We're going to change our room to a queen bedroom. Ill have to confirm with you later; were currently out in town exploring the city.

Is the semicolon used correctly? Or should it be something else?
  

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PreciousJones Is the semicolon used correctly? Yes, but you’re missing two apostrophes, confirm is transitive and doesn’t work in your sentence, and I think you mean out of town— or maybe out in town exploring the city .

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  • PreciousJones Is the semicolon used correctly?
  • Yes, but you’re missing two apostrophes, confirm is transitive and doesn’t work in your sentence, and I think you mean out of town— or maybe out in town exploring the city .
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PreciousJonesIs the semicolon used correctly?
Yes, but you’re missing two apostrophes, confirm is transitive and doesn’t work in your sentence, and I think you mean out of town—or maybe out in town exploring the city.
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What's the difference between using a period and semicolon? They're both for long pauses and two seperate thoughts. is there an easy way to distinguish the two?
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I don't understand. I googled I will confirm with you later, and I found uses by a lot of people. So you're saying its I wrong grammar? Thanks.
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PreciousJonesWhat's the difference between using a period and semicolon? They're both for long pauses and two seperate thoughts. is there an easy way to distinguish the two?
There is no real difference, and neither punctuation mark is used to indicate a pause. The semicolon is never grammatically required, but it is sometimes preferable to a period when connec
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Aspara Gus PreciousJonesWhat's the difference between using a period and semicolon? They're both for long pauses and two seperate thoughts. is there an easy way to distinguish the two?There is no real difference, and neither punctuation mark is used to indicate a pause. The semicolon is never grammatically required, but it is sometimes preferable to a period when connecti
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PreciousJonesWhy do you consider it wrong?
Confirm is strictly transitive. You could confirm something with someone, but there is no confirm with in standard English.
PreciousJonesAnd if it’s wrong, why is it in such commo
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'Confirm' can be used intransitively - see Definition 2 here: http://www.macmillandictionary.com/dictionary/american/confirm. There are twelve citations in the Corpus of Contemporary American Usage.
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Macmillan isn’t exactly the most reputable dictionary, and its one example of confirm as an intransitive verb, You can make an appointment now, and then call nearer the time to confirm, doesn’t sound particularly natural to me. Every other dictionary that I have checked recognizes only the transitive form.

None of your COCA results contains confirm with
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Aspara GusMacmillan isn’t exactly the most reputable dictionary
That's your opinion. I have known many students and teachers who have been satisfied with it.
Aspara GusYou can make an appointment now, and then call nearer the time to confirm, doesn’t sound particularly natural to me.
Well, It does to me.
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fivejedjonAll of them did.
And would you consider them good, natural English? Have you yourself ever uttered the phrase confirm with? I certainly haven’t, and I would be very surprised to hear it from any reasonably educated native speaker of English.
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