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Q: Carol was operated on last night.



In this sentence, I wonder the preposition "on" can be dropped without any difference of meaning.






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  • If Carol is a program or a piece of machinery that you can operate, then yes. If she’s a human being, then probably no (we don’t normally operate people the way we operate machinery).
    – Janus Bahs Jacquet
    2 days ago










  • Carol was operated by a doctor last night. How about this sentence? I think this sentence is incorrect.
    – Fellix
    2 days ago












  • "Operated on", in this context, has a specific idiomatic meaning. Dropping the "on" destroys the idiom. Saying "Carol was operated by a doctor" would imply that there was sexual activity between the two.
    – Hot Licks
    2 days ago






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    @HotLicks Sexual activity?! Where do you get this from?
    – michael.hor257k
    2 days ago






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    If you have undergone a surgical operation, you have been operated on.
    – Kate Bunting
    2 days ago

















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In this sentence, I wonder the preposition "on" can be dropped without any difference of meaning.






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  • If Carol is a program or a piece of machinery that you can operate, then yes. If she’s a human being, then probably no (we don’t normally operate people the way we operate machinery).
    – Janus Bahs Jacquet
    2 days ago










  • Carol was operated by a doctor last night. How about this sentence? I think this sentence is incorrect.
    – Fellix
    2 days ago












  • "Operated on", in this context, has a specific idiomatic meaning. Dropping the "on" destroys the idiom. Saying "Carol was operated by a doctor" would imply that there was sexual activity between the two.
    – Hot Licks
    2 days ago






  • 1




    @HotLicks Sexual activity?! Where do you get this from?
    – michael.hor257k
    2 days ago






  • 2




    If you have undergone a surgical operation, you have been operated on.
    – Kate Bunting
    2 days ago













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Q: Carol was operated on last night.



In this sentence, I wonder the preposition "on" can be dropped without any difference of meaning.






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In this sentence, I wonder the preposition "on" can be dropped without any difference of meaning.






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put on hold as off-topic by Janus Bahs Jacquet, MetaEd♦ yesterday


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put on hold as off-topic by Janus Bahs Jacquet, MetaEd♦ yesterday


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  • If Carol is a program or a piece of machinery that you can operate, then yes. If she’s a human being, then probably no (we don’t normally operate people the way we operate machinery).
    – Janus Bahs Jacquet
    2 days ago










  • Carol was operated by a doctor last night. How about this sentence? I think this sentence is incorrect.
    – Fellix
    2 days ago












  • "Operated on", in this context, has a specific idiomatic meaning. Dropping the "on" destroys the idiom. Saying "Carol was operated by a doctor" would imply that there was sexual activity between the two.
    – Hot Licks
    2 days ago






  • 1




    @HotLicks Sexual activity?! Where do you get this from?
    – michael.hor257k
    2 days ago






  • 2




    If you have undergone a surgical operation, you have been operated on.
    – Kate Bunting
    2 days ago


















  • If Carol is a program or a piece of machinery that you can operate, then yes. If she’s a human being, then probably no (we don’t normally operate people the way we operate machinery).
    – Janus Bahs Jacquet
    2 days ago










  • Carol was operated by a doctor last night. How about this sentence? I think this sentence is incorrect.
    – Fellix
    2 days ago












  • "Operated on", in this context, has a specific idiomatic meaning. Dropping the "on" destroys the idiom. Saying "Carol was operated by a doctor" would imply that there was sexual activity between the two.
    – Hot Licks
    2 days ago






  • 1




    @HotLicks Sexual activity?! Where do you get this from?
    – michael.hor257k
    2 days ago






  • 2




    If you have undergone a surgical operation, you have been operated on.
    – Kate Bunting
    2 days ago
















If Carol is a program or a piece of machinery that you can operate, then yes. If she’s a human being, then probably no (we don’t normally operate people the way we operate machinery).
– Janus Bahs Jacquet
2 days ago




If Carol is a program or a piece of machinery that you can operate, then yes. If she’s a human being, then probably no (we don’t normally operate people the way we operate machinery).
– Janus Bahs Jacquet
2 days ago












Carol was operated by a doctor last night. How about this sentence? I think this sentence is incorrect.
– Fellix
2 days ago






Carol was operated by a doctor last night. How about this sentence? I think this sentence is incorrect.
– Fellix
2 days ago














"Operated on", in this context, has a specific idiomatic meaning. Dropping the "on" destroys the idiom. Saying "Carol was operated by a doctor" would imply that there was sexual activity between the two.
– Hot Licks
2 days ago




"Operated on", in this context, has a specific idiomatic meaning. Dropping the "on" destroys the idiom. Saying "Carol was operated by a doctor" would imply that there was sexual activity between the two.
– Hot Licks
2 days ago




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1




@HotLicks Sexual activity?! Where do you get this from?
– michael.hor257k
2 days ago




@HotLicks Sexual activity?! Where do you get this from?
– michael.hor257k
2 days ago




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If you have undergone a surgical operation, you have been operated on.
– Kate Bunting
2 days ago




If you have undergone a surgical operation, you have been operated on.
– Kate Bunting
2 days ago















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