[Ads-l] Transitive "remind" without "of"

Stanton McCandlish smccandlish at GMAIL.COM
Thu Oct 24 20:53:39 UTC 2024


I've encountered this a handful of times before, but it was in social media
not professional journalism.

Associated Press headline, 2024-10-24: "An artist summons Superman to
remind people the power of voting".

Kind of a silly use of "summons", too, but that's another matter.

https://apnews.com/article/voting-texas-superman-election-2024-178105579132580f21a0a34b2c0f01e8

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