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Trying to create a notification message for a user on a website.

Right now, the flow is that following some search, results are presented to a user with text such as:

"I Found you these great results !"

I understand this can be changed to "Here are some ... "

But what I am really trying to understand is if this is a legit usage of language:
I found you X

I am of course a non native, so maybe the "strangeness" is just to my ears..

grammar writing

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Trying to create a notification message for a user on a website.

Right now, the flow is that following some search, results are presented to a user with text such as:

"I Found you these great results !"

I understand this can be changed to "Here are some ... "

But what I am really trying to understand is if this is a legit usage of language:
I found you X

I am of course a non native, so maybe the "strangeness" is just to my ears..

grammar writing

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Trying to create a notification message for a user on a website.

Right now, the flow is that following some search, results are presented to a user with text such as:

"I Found you these great results !"

I understand this can be changed to "Here are some ... "

But what I am really trying to understand is if this is a legit usage of language:
I found you X

I am of course a non native, so maybe the "strangeness" is just to my ears..

grammar writing

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Trying to create a notification message for a user on a website.

Right now, the flow is that following some search, results are presented to a user with text such as:

"I Found you these great results !"

I understand this can be changed to "Here are some ... "

But what I am really trying to understand is if this is a legit usage of language:
I found you X

I am of course a non native, so maybe the "strangeness" is just to my ears..

grammar writing

grammar writing

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It's perfectly grammatical.

In the same way that ditransitive verbs (like give and show) can be used in two ways,

I gave the book to her.

or

I gave her the book.

many verbs can have a benefactive "for X", which can be treated the same way:

I baked a cake for her.

or

I baked her a cake.

So "I found you this" is identical in meaning to "I found this for you".

To me, this is something that would be said by a friend, or a person who had been working with me and established some sort of relationship. To have a piece of software say it strikes me as presumptuous, trying to pretend that it has a personal relationship with me.

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This is an example of usage of an indirect object. This often happens with the preposition to;

I gave the book to you

I gave you the book

Note that the indirect object you can follow the direct object the book, with the preposition to, or it can follow the verb and lose the preposition. This also happens occasionally with the preposition for

I found these great results for you!

I found you these great results!

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It's perfectly grammatical.

In the same way that ditransitive verbs (like give and show) can be used in two ways,

I gave the book to her.

or

I gave her the book.

many verbs can have a benefactive "for X", which can be treated the same way:

I baked a cake for her.

or

I baked her a cake.

So "I found you this" is identical in meaning to "I found this for you".

To me, this is something that would be said by a friend, or a person who had been working with me and established some sort of relationship. To have a piece of software say it strikes me as presumptuous, trying to pretend that it has a personal relationship with me.

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It's perfectly grammatical.

In the same way that ditransitive verbs (like give and show) can be used in two ways,

I gave the book to her.

or

I gave her the book.

many verbs can have a benefactive "for X", which can be treated the same way:

I baked a cake for her.

or

I baked her a cake.

So "I found you this" is identical in meaning to "I found this for you".

To me, this is something that would be said by a friend, or a person who had been working with me and established some sort of relationship. To have a piece of software say it strikes me as presumptuous, trying to pretend that it has a personal relationship with me.

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answered 4 hours ago

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It's perfectly grammatical.

In the same way that ditransitive verbs (like give and show) can be used in two ways,

I gave the book to her.

or

I gave her the book.

many verbs can have a benefactive "for X", which can be treated the same way:

I baked a cake for her.

or

I baked her a cake.

So "I found you this" is identical in meaning to "I found this for you".

To me, this is something that would be said by a friend, or a person who had been working with me and established some sort of relationship. To have a piece of software say it strikes me as presumptuous, trying to pretend that it has a personal relationship with me.

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It's perfectly grammatical.

In the same way that ditransitive verbs (like give and show) can be used in two ways,

I gave the book to her.

or

I gave her the book.

many verbs can have a benefactive "for X", which can be treated the same way:

I baked a cake for her.

or

I baked her a cake.

So "I found you this" is identical in meaning to "I found this for you".

To me, this is something that would be said by a friend, or a person who had been working with me and established some sort of relationship. To have a piece of software say it strikes me as presumptuous, trying to pretend that it has a personal relationship with me.

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This is an example of usage of an indirect object. This often happens with the preposition to;

I gave the book to you

I gave you the book

Note that the indirect object you can follow the direct object the book, with the preposition to, or it can follow the verb and lose the preposition. This also happens occasionally with the preposition for

I found these great results for you!

I found you these great results!

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This is an example of usage of an indirect object. This often happens with the preposition to;

I gave the book to you

I gave you the book

Note that the indirect object you can follow the direct object the book, with the preposition to, or it can follow the verb and lose the preposition. This also happens occasionally with the preposition for

I found these great results for you!

I found you these great results!

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This is an example of usage of an indirect object. This often happens with the preposition to;

I gave the book to you

I gave you the book

Note that the indirect object you can follow the direct object the book, with the preposition to, or it can follow the verb and lose the preposition. This also happens occasionally with the preposition for

I found these great results for you!

I found you these great results!

share|improve this answer

answered 4 hours ago

JavaLatte

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This is an example of usage of an indirect object. This often happens with the preposition to;

I gave the book to you

I gave you the book

Note that the indirect object you can follow the direct object the book, with the preposition to, or it can follow the verb and lose the preposition. This also happens occasionally with the preposition for

I found these great results for you!

I found you these great results!

share|improve this answer

answered 4 hours ago

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