Is “He made me a cake” equally correct and natural-sounding?
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😎 “He made a cake for me” (This is correct)
“He made me a cake”. Question: is this equally correct and natural-sounding?
🤖 Yes, “He made me a cake” is equally correct and natural-sounding. Both sentences are grammatically correct and convey the same meaning. The difference lies in the sentence structure:
– “He made a cake for me” uses a prepositional phrase (“for me”).
– “He made me a cake” uses a double-object construction, where “me” is the indirect object and “a cake” is the direct object.
Both forms are common in English.
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