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I'm not sure if I have to add the preposition "to" in the following sentence. Do I have?

"Give it to me please"

or

"give it me please"

?

Virtuous Legend
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In most relatively formal dialects, the to is essential. In casual usage in some dialects, the to is extraneous and may sound wrong. If you were to analyse the latter sort of dialect properly, I suspect you would say that the to is implicit in give.

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