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Old 22-Nov-2005, 11:39
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Default Re: suggest corrections - a story

Thank you.

Oh, now I see the problem with the verb 'to wed' in that sentence..I had a different meaning in mind = that the father arranged the marriage for his son / chose a suitable future wife for his son...as it often happened in the past.
I know shouldn't have translated that expression directly from Slovenian...but I've checked the meaning of the verb 'to wed' in the New Oxford Dictionary of English and it also says: 'give or join in marriage' Example given: Will you wed your daughter to him?
But now I can see there's the prepositional phrase 'to him' in the sentence, and in my story I didn't use it, so this could be the reason for ambiguity.

Can anyone reccommend a better version of the last sentence in my folk tale?

Thanks.
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