Re: Verb "to tell" without indirect object?

Mon, 05 May 2008 10:38:58 -0700: Woody Wordpecker
<exw6sxq@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>: in alt.usage.english:

Anyway, who did you mean by "we all"?

Native speakers, and non-native speakers who don't have to look
_everything_ up in a grammar book, but just "know" certain things.

Did you find the examples I quoted earlier in the thread, by a Dutch
author hoping to become famous writing in English, correct English?
Idiomatic English? Natural sounding English?
--
Ruud Harmsen
http://rudhar.com
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