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Old 19-Feb-2007, 02:23
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Default to chace somebody/to chace after somebody

HI everybody,

would you please help me with these two terms :

1) to chace somebody

2) to chace after somebody

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Default Re: to chace somebody/to chace after somebody

Firstly it's chase. There's not much difference, but it could be more direct without the preposition; if you chase after somebody, you try to catch them up, so you'd chase after a friend to tell them something. If you chase someone, you try to catch them, so the police would chase a criminal.
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