同學小薇: A follow-up to your question

When I was reading The Fifth Witness by Michael Connelly yesterday, I came across this line similar to what we were discussing:

P.43  "I didn't think so.  So all I'll say then is be careful."

The author did not use "to be careful".

I still don't have a clear explanation to that, but I tentatively believe, by dropping "to", it would give the statement a warning, or an admonishing or a demanding undertone.

 

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• 有意思的語法現象，文青你能來解釋嗎？ -beautifulwind- ♀ (0 bytes) () 01/10/2013 postreply 09:59:56

• 回複： -Lucidus- ♂ (18171 bytes) () 01/10/2013 postreply 10:32:33

• 回複：回複： -同學小薇- ♀ (212 bytes) () 01/10/2013 postreply 10:51:54

• Thank you for bringing this for discussion... -同學小薇- ♀ (139 bytes) () 01/10/2013 postreply 10:54:47

• 那天看到你們討論想到一首歌裏的歌詞 -非文學青年- ♀ (389 bytes) () 01/10/2013 postreply 11:32:04

• 謝謝文青！一下子就明白了。有你這個語法專家真好！：） -beautifulwind- ♀ (0 bytes) () 01/10/2013 postreply 11:41:31

• 又給我吹點兒美麗的風啦，哈哈。表揚專業資深教授新年也resume work了？ -非文學青年- ♀ (87 bytes) () 01/10/2013 postreply 12:07:13

• 嗯。等著。 -beautifulwind- ♀ (136 bytes) () 01/10/2013 postreply 12:13:09

• 又overcommit了，不好意思，下午沒抽出空來，等明天吧。你開始練了嗎？ -非文學青年- ♀ (0 bytes) () 01/10/2013 postreply 17:43:01

• 還沒有。我得等下周才有時間了。你先練吧。 -beautifulwind- ♀ (0 bytes) () 01/10/2013 postreply 18:00:42

• 也聽歌啦！ -beautifulwind- ♀ (0 bytes) () 01/10/2013 postreply 11:44:01

• got it. Thanks wenqing! -同學小薇- ♀ (0 bytes) () 01/12/2013 postreply 14:27:34

• 讀著大家的探討交流，我也受益了，謝謝。並祝周末快樂。 -紓珈- ♀ (0 bytes) () 01/11/2013 postreply 14:28:54