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Diamondrg

#350540 Fri, 13 Apr 07 07:17 PM

It’s time you got out of the house! Come and have coffee with me tomorrow morning, I’ll pick you up in the car.

Is it natural to use "pick you up in the car", especially the "in the car" part, in this sentence? Thanks.

Diamondrg

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Feebs11

#350550 Fri, 13 Apr 07 07:54 PM

It's perfectly acceptable colloquial English.

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Philip

#350573 Fri, 13 Apr 07 09:31 PM

Diamondrg wrote:

It’s time you got out of the house! Come and have coffee with me tomorrow morning, I’ll pick you up in the car.

Is it natural to use "pick you up in the car", especially the "in the car" part, in this sentence? Thanks.

It's simply another way of saying, "I'll drive".

Philip

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Grammar Geek

#350606 Sat, 14 Apr 07 12:19 AM

I do feel like "in the car" is redundent. "Have coffee with me tomorrow morning - I'll drive." or "Have coffee with me tomorrow morning - I'll pick you up."

(I know it's a spoken thing, but as written, it's a comma splice.)

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Barbara, who answers in American English.

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