Talk:Transitivity

Is "John bought a car to Mary" a grammatical sentence in some dialect of English? No one in my family thought so, and I don't know what it would mean. Maybe the same as "John bought a car for Mary?" (I'm a native speaker of US English.)--Rogerwo 19:13, 19 May 2011 (UTC)

Since the correct answer to the CLEA250 question 235 ("He was sent a postcard.") was TST2, should the following rule be added?

Subjects are to be considered elliptical (hidden) in passive voice verbal constructions.

   John was given five dollars = (Someone) gave John five dollars = ditransitive(TST2) 

--Rogerwo 20:47, 19 May 2011 (UTC)

Since a Google search shows up 4 results for "bought a car for her", I think it's fair to assume that this is a mistake. I have edited the article - hope I'm doing the right thing.