⭐ Amy(수현) ⭐
Professor Profissional
I learned this sentence 'To what do we owe the pleasure?' I understood the meaning like I'm happy you here but why you here. However, I can't understand about ' what' and 'to what' Why does it mean?
6 de set de 2023 23:29
Respostas · 1
Your interpretation is correct. The relative pronoun "what" refers to the reason for being here. The verb "to owe" works well with both a direct and an indirect object. In this sense it acts like the verb "to give". For example, "Jim gives a dollar to Bill" "Jim owes a dollar to Bill" So you can ask "We owe the pleasure to what?" though it sounds more natural to put the interrogative at the beginning of the sentence: "To what do we owe the pleasure?"
7 de setembro de 2023
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