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Wowenglish Posted 17 years ago
Grammar
Take/mistake
I would like to know the difference between "1" and "2".
1. I took him for his brother.
2. I mistook him for his brother.
1. I took him for his brother.
2. I mistook him for his brother.
Top answer
They both mean the same thing. CJ
- They both mean the same thing.
- CJ
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In the first of these sentences, it is still not definitely known whether 'he' was 'his brother' or not, although we tend to understand that 'he' was not. In the second sentence we clearly see that the speaker made a wrong assumption about 'his brother'. By looking up the definitions of 'take sb for sb' and 'mistake sb for sb' we may arrive at the following conclusion: the former means 'to believ
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