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"Nurses ask their patients that all the time."
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Yes.. that sounds better to me too. Thanks a lot!
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To me, the first one sounds completely wrong, and the second is the only possibility. I can't think of an English construction where you would 'ask to' somebody, because with 'ask' you have a direct object, not an indirect one.
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In everyday American English you hear it. Other examples:
"How are you today?" "People ask that all the time." "Really? They don't ask that to me." (although people don't ask me that sounds much better) I'm not sure the former would be considered correct in prescriptive grammar, although no rules that I'm running through my head indicate that it is wrong.
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The verb 'ask' can take both a direct object and an indirect object.
In this article, "I need to ask John a question" is treated as a special case, where the indirect object immediately follows the verb 'ask'. I admit this sounds much better. However, I'm quite certain I've heard the next sentence the article spotlights both ways. And, "He promised it to me," sounds much better than "He promised me it." |
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I've never once heard it before now. In my idiolect, it is wrong.
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Alan Colmes (FOX news): "In all fairness, you could ask that to anybody in any state about their senator or Congress person, and they probably wouldn't be able to answer that question." Mrs W. Miller (wife of convicted rapists and murderer Wesley Miller): "You can ask that to my attorneys." Senator Joseph Biden (in CBS Morning): "And ask that to Phil Gramm." But "ask to ZZ that" gathers fifty times more instances within that corpus.
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I reckon this is some distortion of English caused by the influence of Spanish in America. |
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If you look for people who don't give a darn about word order in English .... servidor, como decimos por acá .
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