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Originally Posted by Bilal Hassan
Sir technically there is no defect in your answer as if we forget the difference of living or non living things, Water the Horse and Water the plants are both true in this sense but we obviously have to differentiate between these two.....
SO the correct answer is "Make the Horse drink water".
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Your statement reminds me of an idiom: "You can take/lead horse to water but you can not make him drink."
http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/horse
Can you please provide a reference where "Water the horse" has been declared as incorrect/defective sentence? I would appreciate if you come up with any authentic reference.
Here are some links for your ready reference to notice "Water the horse" as grammatically correct sentence.
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/14070/14070.txt
(Lead_ the horse to water; or,
water the horse.)
http://www.englishforeveryone.org/PDFs/The_Drive.pdf
The story says that Gustav’s little girl likes to ride horses, but it does not say that Gustav waters the horses.
http://archive.org/stream/encycloped...0hall_djvu.txt
Lead the horse to water ;
or, water the horse.
http://coyotepapers.sbs.arizona.edu/CPXVI/6.deHaan.pdf
The boy really did water the horse(s).’
http://absolutewrite.com/forums/showthread.php?t=251520
Like how much to feed and water the horse
http://www.elfinspell.com/Universities3.html
He had to look after the house or feed the cattle or water the horse; he was detained by a wedding, by picking grapes, or making out bills, or — for these were German boys — by helping with the brew, fetching beer, or serving drink to guests.