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   alexander koryagin to Dallas Hinton   
   Re: "thing out" verb   
   22 Apr 14 10:51:53   
   
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   From: alexander koryagin    
      
   Hi, Dallas Hinton!   
   I read your message from 21.04.2014 21:22   
      
     ak>> -----Beginning of the citation-----   
     ak>>     "Here," he said. "We go on through here. The entrance is   
     ak>> concealed."     Harry did not ask how Dumbledore knew. He   
     ak>> had never seen a wizard work things out like this, simply   
     ak>> by looking and touching; but Harry had long since learned   
     ak>> that bangs and smoke were more often the marks of   
     ak>> ineptitude than expertise. -----The end of the citation-----   
     DH>   
     ak>> It seems that "things out" is a verb and it has the similar   
     ak>> meaning to  "looks".   
     DH>   
     DH> Actually, the verb is "work", an infinitive with the "to" left   
     DH> off.   
      
   Ah, I forgot that I had already asked a similar question when I wrote a    
   message "Some news from Harry." Well, well, I hope I will not ask it for    
   the third time. ;-) The verbs of feeling and infinitives.   
      
   Bye, Dallas!   
   Alexander Koryagin   
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