2023-12-14 08:35:21
To indicate that damage or destruction has been suffered in a place, it is most appropriate that the complement of spank be built without a: hit a regionbetter than hit a region.
However, it is common to find in the press examples such as “The storm of rain and wind hit Gijón”, “The rainfall hits a large part of the national territory” or “This was the extreme solar storm that hit the Earth 9,200 years ago.” ».
As he points out Dictionary of the Spanish languagethe verb spank meansin one of its senses, ’cause damage or destruction of great importance’. In this case, the complement of the verb points what is affected by such a situation and, when referring to places, it is best not to use the preposition a.
The use of a yes it is appropriate in cases where there is a personification of the damaged place, as indicated by the academic grammar. Thus, it is valid to write the preposition in examples such as “The drought is hitting the country, which must reduce its water consumption”, in which country It does not refer to the territory, but rather designates the people who live there. Likewise, when this verb is used in the sense of ‘spanking someone’the preposition is used: “A merchant whipped a man whom he accused of having robbed him.”
Thus, in the examples at the beginning it would have been preferable to write “The storm of rain and wind hit Gijón”, “The rainfall hits a large part of the national territory” and “This was the extreme solar storm that hit the Earth 9,200 years ago.”
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