Timeline for Give something to somebody vs Give somebody something
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| Jul 15, 2023 at 0:19 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | I'm pretty sure "beneficiary must end up with something they didn't have before" is the "standard, accepted" restriction on the ditransitive prepositionless usage. But I think it's the fact that John Lawler's American that sets him against, say, She showed me it (which I have no problem with, in the right context). And at the margins, I can even live with Will one of you kids open Aunt Ethel the door! (That "beneficiary acquires something" doesn't really constrain my inner grammarian! :) | |
| Jul 14, 2023 at 21:06 | comment | added | Kaveh Behnia | Thanks a million 😄 | |
| Jul 14, 2023 at 14:42 | history | answered | Colin Fine | CC BY-SA 4.0 |