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If a woman gives birth to a child concieved in a marriage, can we say "She will deliver a baby from her husband."?
Last edited by ostap77; 27-Nov-2010 at 05:24.
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Originally Posted by
ostap77
If a woman gives birth to a child concieved in a marriage, can we say "She will deliver a (child?) from her husband."?
Ostap, please proofread your post. There seems to be a noun missing after the indefinite article.
I suppose you could say this, but it's not clear and doesn't sound at all natural. As it's written, we might even conjecture that she is a delivery agent and someone else is the recipient. Moreover ,this type of in-wedlock birth is usually not commented on. It would be more usual to hear that she will deliver a child whose father is not her husband. Of course I am making these remarks in a vacuum, as you've provided us with no context.
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Originally Posted by
riquecohen
Ostap, please proofread your post. There seems to be a noun missing after the indefinite article.
I suppose you could say this, but it's not clear and doesn't sound at all natural. As it's written, we might even conjecture that she is a delivery agent and someone else is the recipient. Moreover ,this type of
in-wedlock birth is usually not commented on. It would be more usual to hear that she will deliver a child whose father is
not her husband. Of course I am making these remarks in a vacuum, as you've provided us with no context.

Sorry lef it out. I was not sure about the right preposition. Suppose a woman got married to a man. They've been living together. She got pregnant. So eventualy she gives birth to a baby from her husband. Is ''from" accurate in this context?
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Originally Posted by
ostap77
Sorry lef it out. I was not sure about the right preposition. Suppose a woman got married to a man. They've been living together. She got pregnant. So eventualy she gives birth to a baby from her husband. Is ''from" accurate in this context?
I still find the sentence a bit awkward, but from makes sense in this context.
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Originally Posted by
ostap77
If a woman gives birth to a child concieved in a marriage, can we say "She will deliver a baby from her husband."?
I'd use 'by her husband'.
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Even with the improvement of "by" instead of "from", I don't think it's a very natural sentence. More natural, for me, would be "She's going to have/having a baby by her husband/her husband's baby". Although, as riqhecohen said, "...this type of in-wedlock birth is usually not commented on."
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