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Rex Posted 20 years ago
Grammar

Tend

1. Nurses tended the injured people.

2. Nurses tended to the injured people.

Are both of my sentences fine?
  

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Yes. However: Tend (vt) = to have the care of; watch over; look after: tend a child. Tend to ( vi) = to apply one's attention; attend: no time to tend to my diary.

— Mister Micawber

  • Yes.
  • However: Tend (vt) = to have the care of; watch over; look after: tend a child.
  • Tend to ( vi) = to apply one's attention; attend: no time to tend to my diary.
  • (Am Heritage Dict)
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Yes. However:

Tend (vt) = to have the care of; watch over; look after: tend a child.
Tend to (vi) = to apply one's attention; attend: no time to tend to my diary. (Am Heritage Dict)
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Rex1. Nurses tended the injured people.

2. Nurses tended to the injured people.

Are both of my sentences fine?
Nurses tended the injured people. (correct)

Doctors attended the injured people.
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Hi all,

So you won't allow "Nurses tended to the the injured people"? When I read the original post I felt this was my preferred option. At least the Longman Dictonary seems to agree with me:

also tend to somebody/something [transitive] old-fashioned to look after someone or something:

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Search with:
"tended to the injured"
at
http://www.nytimes.com
and you'll find it's fine:
http://query.nytimes.com/search/query?query=%22tended+t
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Rex1. Nurses tended the injured people.

2. Nurses tended to the injured people.

Are both of my sentences fine?
I would try attended to for #2.

MrP
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According to the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary, the 'to' is optional. (tend (to) somebody/something). The example sentences are: Doctors and nurses tended the injured. / Ambulance crew were tending to the injured.
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