'V on n' - Construction 16
| Name: | the inform on construction |
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| Description: | A person tells someone in authority about what someone has done. |
| Verbs: | grass, inform, rat, snitch, tell |
| Example: | … he categorically denied that he had ever informed on dissidents. (BNC) |
| Membership: | affected 'on'; person on person |
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