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Taka Posted 18 years ago
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Does this sentence sound OK as English?

He will tell you the aspects of love that you haven't thought about.
  

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Taka Does this sentence sound OK as English? He will tell you the aspects of love that you haven't thought about. k.

  • Taka Does this sentence sound OK as English?
  • He will tell you the aspects of love that you haven't thought about.
  • k.
  • I think I would replace 'tell you' with 'talk to you about'.
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TakaDoes this sentence sound OK as English?

He will tell you the aspects of love that you haven't thought about.


It's o.k. I think I would replace 'tell you' with 'talk to you about'.
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Great. So with the noun 'aspect(s)', it can be either 'tell someone about the aspect(s) of X' or 'tell someone the aspect(s) of X', right?
e.g
·They will tell you some aspects of yourself that you are not usually aware of.
·They will tell you about some aspects of yourself that you are not usually aware of.
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Jim, are you there? Do these below sound natural? 
Taka·They will tell you some aspects of yourself that you are not usually aware of.
·They will tell you about some aspects of yourself that you are not usually aware of.
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I'm here (for now, anyway!)
You tell someone a story, a narrative, the truth, a lie.
You don't tell someone a rabbit, a table, a book.
And neither do you tell someone an aspect, an attitude, a consideration, a parameter, a size, a shape.
In the latter cases, you tell someone (something) about a rabbit, table, book, aspect, attitude, etc.
In short, you have to have a
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Isn't (some) aspects of yourself a sort of truth, information, about yourself and therefore something which we can tell somebody?
In fact, I've found this. It's from 'An English Teacher's Guide to Performance Tasks & Rubrics, written by Amy Benjamin:
We need to give them the language and tell them the aspects of literature that they might want to consider. 
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Takatell them the aspects of literature that they might want to consider.
OOF! I'd have said:

tell them which aspects of literature they might want to consider.
i.e., tell them the answer to the question: Which aspects of literature should we consider?
to tell someone an answer is idiomatic, so indirect q
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CalifJimApparently I am pickier than Ms. Benjamin on this point. 
CJ 
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I wonder if there's a slight ambiguity in the original sentence. Cf.

1. Tell me the people you've invited.

2. Tell me about the people you've invited.

#1 requests a list; #2, incriminating information.

MrP
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A very interesting point you've made, MrP! I didn't notice the difference until you mentioned it. And I think your analysis is valid.

So you think it's the same with 'the/some aspects of oneself'?

When it's 'tell you the/some aspects of yourself', is it something like this?

·OK. Now I tell you the/some aspects of yourself that you are not usually aware of. Fir

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