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Re: omitting preposition

Paul Matthews
We should go pay the doctor a visit.

I'd say that this has nothing to do with paying money to the doctor for a visit; rather, it is just a typical way in AmE of saying "We should go and pay the doctor a visit", where the coordinator "and" has been omitted in typical AmE style!




PaulM


Pardon me Pual,
"AmE" is acronym of ....

thanks!!!

Re: omitting preposition

AmE stands for American English. We also use BrE for British English.

In your example, it's the coordinator "and" which is typically omitted in AmE, but included in BrE:

We should go pay the doctor a visit. (AmE)
We should go and pay the doctor a visit. (BrE)

There are also certain other expressions where a preposition is omitted in AmE but not in BrE, for example:

He jumped out the window. (AmE)
He jumped out of the window. (BrE)


See what I mean?

PaulM