Promising not to forget

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It was brought to my attention that both on the practice final and on the “exercises #9” I used the verb promise as a transitive verb. This is probably a borderline error. Conceptually, promise is not really a transitive verb, but a ditransitive one. Someone makes the promise, they promise some CP, and the promise is to someone. I drew the trees on the keys as if one could kind of make a promise into the air, rather than to anyone specific. But I think that’s just not what promise means.

So: Sorry if that was confusing. If I use the verb promise on the final, it will be with an explicit promisee (and then should be drawn as a ditransitive, like tell is on the practice final).

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