I saw the following sentence in my 8547 sentences deck:
山田さんは 果物を、 鈴木さんをお 菓子を 買った。
Yamada bought fruits, and Suzuki, cakes.
is the fact that suzuki is marked with wo a mistake?
Last edited by HonyakuJoshua (2012 November 15, 11:20 pm)
Taishi
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yudantaiteki wrote:
Yes, that's definitely wrong. Even Taishi's (joking) suggestion doesn't work because you can't mark multiple things with を to be the objects of the same verb. (をも marking multiple objects is possible, but is formal/literary and not used in speech.)
I'm sure I've heard を being used like this in certain situations like cheesy lines such as "力を、精神を合わせて!", granted it may, as you say, not be strictly grammatically correct, but couldn't it be used in that kind of way in colloquial settings?
Last edited by Taishi (2012 November 16, 12:21 am)