Timeline for Whether to omit "davon/daran/dazu/etc" from a sentence like the following?
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| Apr 16, 2017 at 16:22 | vote | accept | Con-gras-tue-les-chiens | ||
| Apr 13, 2017 at 23:38 | comment | added | Janka | You cannot leave them out when the sentence structure requires an object and the particle functions as that object. "Wir waren einst ein Paar. Erinnerst du dich nicht daran?" means exactly the same with or without the daran because erinnern can be used with a prepositional object but it doesn't need to. | |
| Apr 13, 2017 at 22:52 | comment | added | Con-gras-tue-les-chiens | Danke! So ... Am I correct in assuming that you cannot omit the "davon/daran/dazu/etc" particles if they refer to an element mentioned in a preceding sentence? Whereas you can omit them if they refer to an element mentioned in a subsequent clause, (as is the case with all the three examples above)? | |
| Apr 13, 2017 at 22:37 | history | edited | Janka | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 13, 2017 at 22:32 | history | answered | Janka | CC BY-SA 3.0 |