Timeline for "We can pay to" Vs. "We can pay"
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| Dec 22, 2018 at 18:48 | comment | added | Ronald Sole | @trlkly Your ear plays your false! | |
| Dec 22, 2018 at 13:30 | comment | added | trlkly | @Crowder and it seems the opposite to my Southern AmE-only ears. "You can pay Boris the fee" sounds fine, but "You can pay Boris the fee tomorrow" feels like there are too many words. "You can pay the fee to Borris tomorrow" has the "to" to break it up, and sounds better to my ear. | |
| Dec 21, 2018 at 20:51 | vote | accept | Virtuous Legend | ||
| Dec 21, 2018 at 18:06 | comment | added | T.J. Crowder | The fun comes in for something like fee: We can pay Boris the fee tomorrow is fine, but We can pay the fee to Boris tomorrow would be (slightly) odd to my AmE/BrE hybrid ear. :-) | |
| Dec 21, 2018 at 14:57 | comment | added | J.R.♦ | In your last two examples, I'd probably change pay to give more often than not: We can give Boris the money tomorrow. | |
| Dec 21, 2018 at 14:00 | history | answered | Ronald Sole | CC BY-SA 4.0 |