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When people use transitive verbs without an object

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ThisIsTheFirstStep · 16/05/2018 04:46

eg “I don’t wish to offend.” - surely that means you don’t want to commit a crime, not that you don’t want to upset someone.

“It doesn’t suit.”

It just sounds very Hyacinth Bucket to me.

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