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Translation: In urdu there are two types of kal. One that has passed a day before today and the other that will come a day after tomorrow. Wateq the horse is not correct in true sense.
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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".
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


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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.


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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.


Sir the sources and links you came up with seem to be strong corroborations to substantiate your claims.....However the Structure "Water the Horse" is an example of colloquial English, the auxiliary verb Make in the sentence "Make the Horse drink water" is conjugated by the main verb Water in the sentence "Water the Horse", which does the job of auxiliary and Main verb simultaneously......but my sentence Make the Horse drink water is also correct, the thing is that yours is an exampleof colloquial English and i have used formal structure, but we both are right....

I am extremly contrite for that, you are right.....sometime we must not jump at conclusions hastily....
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I think it is right to say " water the horse" because we keep horses and we feed them and we offer them water. so it will be right to say water the horse. if the horses could speak english than there might will be possibility of saying "quench your thirst buddy"
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Tomorrow is of two types ,yesterday and Tomorrow

i think i translated it hilarious :/
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Please translate it into English
Larko ko chuti hoi

And second query is that simple present tense is used in the headings of English newspapers?
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