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Yoong Liat

#304476 Sat, 16 Dec 06 10:04 AM

The injured were sent to hospital for treatment.

The word 'sent' is not correctly used, IMO. It should be replaced by 'taken', shouldn't it?

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nona the brit

#304480 Sat, 16 Dec 06 10:17 AM

It could be either. It depends on the point of view of the speaker.

Are they thinking about the hospital taking charge and collecting them - so taken, or someone at the original place taking charge and arranging for them to go to the hospital - sent. Are they thinking about the collecting end or the sending end?

It doesn't make any real difference.

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The name says it all.

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#304558 Sat, 16 Dec 06 05:02 PM

This reminds me of a terrible headline for a short article that appeared several years ago in a newspaper: "Man hit by train rushed to two hospitals"

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#304559 Sat, 16 Dec 06 05:04 PM

Nona The Brit wrote:

It could be either. It depends on the point of view of the speaker.

Are they thinking about the hospital taking charge and collecting them - so taken, or someone at the original place taking charge and arranging for them to go to the hospital - sent. Are they thinking about the collecting end or the sending end?

It doesn't make any real difference.

Right. And, if the speaker is a worker at the hospital, 'brought' would also be a possibility.

Philip