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Forming a question over an indirect object
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to give a cookie to someone OR to give someone a cookie
Question: To whom did I give a cookie?= very correct, yes.
BUT in regular, contemporary speech we actually say:
Who did I give a cookie ...
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Why can't we say “How hard is to earn money”?
X is very hard.
Let's make up a question to the word "very":
How hard is X?
Now, instead of "X", we can pick up some word or phrase. For example, if "X" is "the work&...
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Forming a question over a direct object of a ditransitive verb
You need the preposition "to" to show direction.
Who did I give an ogre (someone has been given to the ogre)
To who did I give an ogre (an ogre has been given to someone)
It's also common ...
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