2010년 2월 12일 금요일

Dic: [The Complete Plain words] Agree


Following the example set by approve, agree is showing a disposition to shake off its attendant prepositions to, on and with, and to pose as a transitive verb. [:]
  • "I agree your figures",
  • "We must agree the arrangements for this",
  • "I agree your draft".
Some correspondents would have me castigate this, but I do not think there is any great harm in it. It is true that established idiom requires [:]
  • "I agree with your figures",
  • "We must agree on the arrangements" and
  • "I agree with" or
  • (if from a superior) "I agree to your draft".
But the change has probably come to stay, and will be absorbed into English idiom.

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