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Vincent Ding
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Thu, 02 Jun 05 09:50 AM
to defend or to make a defense i presume is to make an argument against the opponent's allegation. but do you think it can be used in such way as shown below:
the defendant defended that he's never been to the victims house on that evening so he shall not be suspected.
i searched on the net only to find that mainly Chinese websites employ the word in this way (it corresponds to the Chinese word for word translation.) so i wonder whether it is a bad expression or how a native speaker may say.
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Miche
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Thu, 02 Jun 05 10:02 AM
Hi again,
"The defendant defended" doesn't sound right at all. What's more, defend calls for a noun (defend somebody, defend the freedom of speech etc). The right thing to say is "the defendant maintained/claimed that...".
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