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Possessive indirect object pronouns?
I was working on an online exercise today where the object was to rewrite sentences and replace as much as possible with direct and indirect object pronouns. I was doing okay until I came across this sentence:
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Is Google correct? Is this a common construction? Is "ellos van a cancelar mi cable" also correct? Am I thinking about this totally wrong? |
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I think this is an example of the "ethical dative", which is the use of an indirect object to mean something like "in a way which affects X's interests". Unfortunately Wikipedia doesn't have an article about it, but you might be able to find something useful elsewhere.
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I have other idea about the build of the sentence wrote in the first post.
Ellos me van a cancelar el cable. They are going to cancelling me the cable. They are going to cancel my cable The second ones is like the first one, but they are written of the different form. Is it right?
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