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User_gary Posted 19 years ago
Grammar

took out

She took out $20,000 from me last year, but she hasn't returned yet.

Is this sentence correct?

Please help me.
  

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"Took out" = took something out of something else In your sentence it seems to mean "She borrowed" - use this word.

  • "Took out" = took something out of something else In your sentence it seems to mean "She borrowed" - use this word.
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"Took out" = took something out of something else

In your sentence it seems to mean "She borrowed" - use this word.
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You take your own money out of the bank, or you take out a loan, but you don't just 'take out' money from your friends.
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Thank you friends.

If I take loan from my friends, can I use "I have taken out $ 50000 dollars as a loan from my friend".

Or, I wonder if the phrase "took out" should be used only with the bank loan.

Please help me.
You take your own money out of the bank
Also I wonder if I can take out my money from the bank. Or it should b
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I took $50 from my account. I took out $50. - Yes.

I took $50 could sound like I robbed the bank.

You really don't take out a loan from friends. If you happen to have a friend with such a large amount of money, then you can say you borrowered that sum, or that he loaned you that sum. It's not that it's not grammatically possible - it is from a grammatical point of view. It
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To 'take out a loan' means the formal process of applying and being approved for a loan from a bank or professional lender. It doesn't refer to the actual 'getting the money' part.That's why it doesn't apply to friends.

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