Talk:explain
Add topicLatest comment: 8 months ago by DCDuring in topic Explain something to someone
Explain something to someone
[edit]You explain something to someone, ✗Don’t say: *Alan explained (to) me the system. --Backinstadiums (talk) 17:19, 22 August 2021 (UTC)
- According to Levin (1993: 46), there are a couple of dozen transfer verbs which resist the ditransitive frame, such as explain, display, recommend, allege, confess, and entrust. JMGN (talk) 15:46, 6 April 2025 (UTC)
- "He explained to me that XYZ" is perfectly fine English. ("Explained me" is not.) 2A00:23C5:FE1C:3701:5936:279F:DE04:F8BF 15:50, 6 April 2025 (UTC)
- OP was not about a that-clause though... JMGN (talk) 15:53, 6 April 2025 (UTC)
- Explain is not ambitransitive. DCDuring (talk) 16:07, 6 April 2025 (UTC)
- OP was not about a that-clause though... JMGN (talk) 15:53, 6 April 2025 (UTC)