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Victorycountry Posted 19 years ago
Grammar

If you are harboring ...

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00According to a dictionary, one of the "verb" meanings of the "harbor" is "to keep feelings or thoughts espcially negative ones, in your mind for a long time".02br
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00In the following sentence, even though, the verb has such a meaning, it still takes an object which refer to the same meaning, "negative thoughts".02br
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00Would it be possible to say without "negative thoughts"? or since it's taking an object "harbor" must be a transitive verb, then is that the reason? 02br
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00e.g.02br
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00If you're harbouring negative thoughts, you need to understand what they really mean. 02br
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00=> If you're harbouring, you need to understand what they really mean.02br
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00Thanks in advance.0-
  

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0 If you're harbouring negative thoughts = If you're 01b 00have02b 00 negative thoughts02br 02br 01font 00 If you're harbouring,02font 00 you need to understand what they really mean 01font 00This is bad English02font 0-

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0 If you're harbouring negative thoughts = If you're 01b00have02b00 negative thoughts02br
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01font00 If you're harbouring,02font00 you need to understand what they really mean 01font00This is bad English02font0-
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0Thanks for your explanation!02br
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00Sorry, because since my dictionary, it doesn't tell whether the verb 'harbor' is a transitive verb or intranstive verb, I am still not clear what you mean by bad english.02br
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00Well, wait a minute... let me see...I just looked up the dictionary.com, ouch...it's both transitive and intransitive but depending on
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0Thanks for your explanation!02br
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00Sorry, because since my dictionary, it doesn't tell whether the verb 'harbor' is a transitive verb or intranstive verb, I am still not clear what you mean by bad english.02br
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00Well, wait a minute... let me see...I just looked up the dictionary.com, ouch...it's both transitive and intransitive but depending on
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