Hi, Ardith Hinton! -> Dallas Hinton
I read your message from 13.07.2020 19:42

 AK>>  If I talk about myself, can I say: "I drained Jim
 AK>>  everything I knew about his wife's love affair."  ;-)
 AH>
 DH>>  You can -- I wouldn't -- it's not wrong,
 DH>>  just....unusual!
 AH>
 AS>>  I am sure it is wrong without an "of" before "everything."
 AH>
 DH>>  Definitely wrong. My original had the "of"; your quote
 DH>>  above seems to have omitted it.
 AH>
 AH>
 AH>             In Alexander's message, as we received it here, the
 AH> "of" was left out.  I figure Anton quoted Alexander's words
 AH> correctly as he saw them.  :-Q

My sentence had the opposite sense. I drained Jim everything that I knew...


Bye, Ardith!
Alexander Koryagin
english_tutor 2020

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