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Angliholic  #352357  Wed, 18 Apr 07 05:50 AM

Because the head office has sent someone in here to replace you, I'm afraid that it will send you out to another branch.

Do I use send someone in/out right here? Thanks.

  
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Carrot  #352365  Wed, 18 Apr 07 06:08 AM
send in - sort of send here

send out - sort of send there, send to another place

dont know how to make it clearier, but it is kind of going that way, isn't it?
If I am wrong please improve meWink [;)]

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Yoong Liat  #352396  Wed, 18 Apr 07 09:21 AM
 Angliholic wrote:

Because the head office has sent someone in here to replace you, I'm afraid that it will send you out to another branch.

Do I use send someone in/out right here? Thanks.


You can send someone to another place.

But we cannot say, "I send my son to school every day" if we mean "I take my son to school every day."
  
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SriSri  #352445  Wed, 18 Apr 07 12:41 PM

You can try to make yourself clear.

Use send over to mean send to where someone is.  Send someone off, to cause someone to leave a place.

[Because the head office has sent someone over to replace you, I'm afraid they will send you off to another branch.]

  
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