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tip for service OR tip service
This morning, I browsed an English websites and found below sentence written by a netizen. I have a question regarding it:
In a forum, the net users are talking about whether or not tipping for delivery food. One user said "I tip good service, and don't tip bad service. I never feel obligated to tip." I think there should be a "for " after "tip", that is "tip for good service and don't tip for bad service", because "tip" should be followed directly by someone. Am I correct?
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There are two ways of looking at this:
"I tip good service" - "tip" is transitive, and has a similar meaning to "reward" here.
"I tip for good service" - "tip" is intransitive (no object, so you use a preposition), and "for good service" gives us the reason why you tip.
Some verbs can be transitive or intransitive. Both possibilities are correct, but the meaning is slightly different.
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It reads correctly either way. In English, we often omit prepositions and other modifiers that would be obligatory in other languages.
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الصينية (المندرية), الإنجليزية, اليابانية
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