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Can I say: "can you show me the picture?" or I should say: "can you show the picture to me?"
Can I say: "can you show me the picture?" or I should say: "can you show the picture to me?"
Apr 23, 2015 1:17 PM
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You can use either. The verb "show" allows you to use both constructions.
April 23, 2015
2
Both are fine. Both are natural-sounding. Both are straightforward--not colloquial, not too formal.
I'm struggling to think of any slight difference in meaning between the two. I can't think of one.
April 23, 2015
2
both forms of question are gramatically correct, but the first question is better, more common
April 23, 2015
1
Both. Native speakers of any language generally like the shortest way to say things so I would say the first is slightly better as in common. Both are natural and correct though and I hear both ways regularly.
April 23, 2015
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