Timeline for Difference between 'delightful' and 'delighting'?
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| Mar 10, 2013 at 14:29 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | @doquan0: My example #4 is "passive voice", with when they scored effectively acting as an "indirect object". I could have said "I was delighted by their skilful play". Or "I delighted in their skilful play", using "active voice", but in in your version isn't valid (it must be by seeing, or more likely to see). To get off to/with X has an idiomatic meaning to begin/start [some process] by doing/using X | |
| Mar 10, 2013 at 5:04 | vote | accept | Phuong | ||
| Mar 10, 2013 at 4:16 | comment | added | doquan0 | Will there be any differences if I change your last example into passive voice: the home fans were delighted in seeing their team get off to a good start? And, what does 'get off' mean ? Does it mean to 'leave a place'? Thanks | |
| Mar 10, 2013 at 3:53 | history | edited | FumbleFingers | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 10, 2013 at 3:45 | history | answered | FumbleFingers | CC BY-SA 3.0 |