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Navitasan Posted 17 years ago
Grammar

Something

1-He did something with the intention of hurting me.

Can one use sentence 1 instead of:
2-He did something to hurt me.
  

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navitasan 1-He did something with the intention of hurting me. Can one use sentence 1 instead of: 2-He did something to hurt me. In my opinion you can, with the following caveat: Number 2.

— Avangi

  • navitasan 1-He did something with the intention of hurting me.
  • Can one use sentence 1 instead of: 2-He did something to hurt me.
  • In my opinion you can, with the following caveat: Number 2.
  • is ambiguous, so you can always use 2.
  • , but you can't always use 1.
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navitasan1-He did something with the intention of hurting me.

Can one use sentence 1 instead of:
2-He did something to hurt me. In my opinion you can, with the following caveat:

Number 2. is ambiguous, so you can always use 2. instead of 1., but you can't always use
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Thanks Avangi,

I thought

3-He hurt something that hurt me.

didn't make it clear if he wanted to hurt me or not

and

2-He did something to hurt me.



meant that he intended to hurt me.

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We agree on the first one and disagree on the second one. In my experience, the second one is used both ways. That is, it's ambiguous.

There are two variables:

(1) the intention -

(a) he intended to hurt me
(b) he didn't intend to hurt me

(2) the result -
(a) he hurt me
(b) he didn't hurt me

He did somet
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