Thread: повысить зарплату

Basurero wrote:

What? The contexts in those examples are completely different!

Yes, but TATY wrote that "the salary for me/someone/John" is not gramaticaly correct, and I'm only saying that it is gramatically correct and is in use, and of course as everybody has pointed out and I agree, it is not the best way to say it.

It was this sentence that TATY said was incorrect:

"I'd like it if they raised the salary for me"

The context here is different to using "for me" to mean для меня like in your examples.

For your way to work you'd have to say something like:

"If they raised my salary it'd be good for me"

Originally Posted by Ken Watts

I'm not so sure that Оля actually wrote the first two sentences in her opening post. I've seen her write excellant English in other posts. So I think she already knew that the first two were incorrect as written.

You are wrong. These were my sentences.

(You are also wrong about my "excellent English" )

Originally Posted by TATY

She's learning English

TATY, you are wrong too!

Originally Posted by Ken Watts

TATY wrote:

Furthermore, "I'd like it if they raised the salary for me" is not grammatically correct, because you don't say "the salary for someone" in English.

You don't say "the salary for John", you say "John's salary" which means "the salary of John".

Wrong. Certainly it's not the usual nor best way of saying it, but it is in use, and it is grammatically correct:
[quote:37n0tvp7]I is now chiefly used as the subject of an immediately following verb. Me occurs in every other position

Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary (2007) http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/me

Google hits:
"my salary" 934000
"salary for me" 156000
"salary of mine" 71500
"the salary for me" 20100
"my salary for me" 11700

"It's not the salary for me that's important"

http://www.workdirections.co.uk/files/u ... _id_26.pdf (page 6)

". . . but the Dodgers would have to eat a lot of the salary for me to consider it."

http://community.foxsports.com/blogs/Mo ... le_Wrap_Up

"While BofA perks are absurdly generous, the salary (for me) was 10-15% higher than any other job in town"

http://www.indeed.com/forum/cmp/Bank-Of ... 18797e4b04

"The boss offered me more money, but trust me, she would have to have doubled my salary for me to change my mind."

http://redheadeditor.blogspot.com/2005/ ... itted.html[/quote:37n0tvp7]

If you say "the salary for me" when trying to express "my salary" you are making a grammar mistake as you are using an incorrect preposition.

All your examples are in a different context and have a different meaning. Furthermore, as your existence proves, there are millions of people on the Internet who don't have a clue about English grammar, so random sites from Google aren't the best source of reference.