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Debpriya De Posted 16 years ago
Grammar

By face

"I don't know him by face."
Is this sentence correct, if I want to say that I haven't met a person in person and I don't know his face ?
  

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It is not colloquial. You can say: We have not met face-to-face. I know him only from our correspondence.

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  • It is not colloquial.
  • You can say: We have not met face-to-face.
  • I know him only from our correspondence.
  • I would not recognize him in person.
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It is not colloquial. You can say:

We have not met face-to-face.
I know him only from our correspondence. I would not recognize him in person.
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