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 #2 (permalink) Thu Dec 10, 2009 7:00 am We usually use our hands to stroke someone to pet them |
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Well nowadays you had better be careful who you stroke or pet!
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HamburgEnglish
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| #3 (permalink) Thu Dec 10, 2009 15:36 pm We usually use our hands to stroke someone to pet them |
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Hi Fedorov,
I think, "We usually use our hands to stroke someone to pet him" sounds better. But it would look strange, if you used any other part of the body to stroke someone.
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Yuri
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| #4 (permalink) Thu Dec 10, 2009 18:47 pm We usually use our hands to stroke someone to pet them |
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| That is possible, but two subsequent to + infinitives are a bit awkward; it would be better to write "we usually use our hands to stroke when we pet someone". |
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| #5 (permalink) Thu Dec 10, 2009 19:07 pm We usually use our hands to stroke someone to pet them |
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| HamburgEnglish wrote: |
Well nowadays you had better be careful who you stroke or pet!
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Just a test:)
| Yuri Yurinov wrote: |
I think, "We usually use our hands to stroke someone to pet him" sounds better.
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Perhaps you're right, but what if it's not he but she or it?
| Cerberus™ wrote: |
That is possible, but two subsequent to + infinitives are a bit awkward; it would be better to write "we usually use our hands to stroke when we pet someone".
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No doubt.
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