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Deepcosmos Posted 4 years ago
Grammar

‘be met with’

Hello, everyone,

1) Their plan will probably meet with little success.

2) Their plan will be probably met with little success.

I’ve sometimes seen the usage of two patterns of the verb - ‘meet’ in either a active or passive form as above with almost same meaning. However, I guess there must be a subtle difference between two patterns, and I’m curious especially at which case the natives use the passive form. Would appreciate on your explanation.

  

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deepcosmos 1) Their plan will probably meet with little success. Right. deepcosmos 2) Their plan will be probably met with little success.

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  • deepcosmos 1) Their plan will probably meet with little success.
  • Right.
  • deepcosmos 2) Their plan will be probably met with little success.
  • Wrong.
  • The natural word order would be "probably be met with", but that would be equally wrong.
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deepcosmos1) Their plan will probably meet with little success.

Right.

deepcosmos2) Their plan will be probably met with little success.

Wrong. The natural word order would be "probably be met with", but that would be equally wrong. The passive use involving "meet" is "to be met by", used when something counters so

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deepcosmosI’m curious especially at which case the natives use the passive form.

That's from the fraze.it website:

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