Ashraful Haque
Make a fool OUT OF/OF himself?
What's the difference between:
1) He made a fool OUT OF himself, and
2) He made a fool OF himself?
29 mar 2020 20:03
Risposte · 7
First sentence is correct.
Second sentence the first “of” is not needed
29 marzo 2020
Sentence 1 means that he turned himself into a fool. Sentence 2 means that he did something embarrassing or foolish.
30 marzo 2020
Interchangeable
29 marzo 2020
I would only use sentence 2 (but the first "of" should be "a").
29 marzo 2020
There is a typo in the second sentence.
29 marzo 2020
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Ashraful Haque
Competenze linguistiche
Bengalese, Inglese
Lingua di apprendimento
Inglese
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