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Gene93 Posted 11 years ago
Vocabulary

to inform someone

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Can we say: "Could you inform me how much the delivery of the furniture would cost?"? Can "inform" be followed by "how"?
  

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"? Can "inform" be followed by "how"? That's OK, but most of us would just use 'tell'.

— Mister Micawber

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  • Can "inform" be followed by "how"?
  • That's OK, but most of us would just use 'tell'.
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Gene93Can we say: "Could you inform me how much the delivery of the furniture would cost?"? Can "inform" be followed by "how"?
That's OK, but most of us would just use 'tell'.
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So would I, but is it not more informal?
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No; it is more natural. 'Inform' is rather stilted there.
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Gene93Can "inform" be followed by "how"?
Not directly. As in your sentence, it requires an intervening element, 'me' in this case.

inform, tell, ask, and show all have the same property, namely, that they take any indirect question as a complement.

[Inform / Tell / Ask / Show] [me / us / them / ...] [how ... / where ... / when
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