Saturday, December 14, 2019

prepositions - "say something" vs. "tell something to somebody"


I am familiar with this rule:


1.Tell something to somebody
2. Say something


But what about his sentence from Melville's Bartleby Scrivener?



“Bartleby!”
“I know you,” he said, without looking round,—“and I want nothing to say to you.”






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