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    Quote Originally Posted by Rongway View Post
    We're talking about "damage you deal target", not "damage dealt target by you". The latter is missing a "to"; the former is not.
    They're identical. I chose that particular wording because it can double as a nominalization and thus didn't feel awkward there, but by the same sense that you can shade "deal" as "give", "damage dealt target by you" is just as 'grammatical' (though only through use of the above construct) as "damage you deal target".

    I don't have any horse in this race. It just seems odd to call someone out for having a mistaken notion of grammar when their understanding of the words in question is actually fine; there merely exists a special, vaguely "accepted" (not "prescriptive") case by which it's possible to omit the preposition despite the word itself being monotransitive (because you're treating it as an entirely different word).
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    Last edited by Shurrikhan; 09-24-2019 at 11:39 AM.