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06:41 Nov 28, 2016 |
English language (monolingual) [Non-PRO] General / Conversation / Greetings / Letters | |||||||
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| Selected response from: Jack Doughty United Kingdom Local time: 18:49 | ||||||
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4 +9 | invited him to visit us |
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5 +7 | invited him |
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invited him Explanation: There is no speical significance to 'down' here, it must be related to your wider context; note at the beginning it also says "Everybody came down." So the writer clearly perceives some sense of 'down' in relation to where the event was held: it could conceivably be something like 'to the gym downtown' or to the gym in the south of the country' or 'to the gym in the basement of the building'. Normally, in EN, we might round off the hanging 'come' with something like 'along' — the fact the writer chose 'down' may or may not have any particular significance; it's the sort of tag-on word that often has no translation value, like "Do you want to come down the shops with me?" — 'up' and 'down' are soemtimes used like this in a way that has no specific positional sense (high/low, north/south, etc.) but simply indicates 'somewhere other than here' — "I'm just going to take the dog for a walk down the road"; "I'm just going to pop up to the village for a newspaper" I would say here it has not translation value as such. |
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