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Daithy Posted 10 years ago
Grammar

"By means of" or "By the means of"

I see everywhere "by means of", but somehow "by the means of" makes sense to me.
  

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Stick to the version that you see everywhere. There's a good reason for it.
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Haha okay. So cannot say ”Our goal is to unite cultures by the means of common policies and equal rights."?
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You can say it if you want to. Most native speakers wouldn't. [https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=by+means+of%2Cby+the+means+of&y
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"Most native speakers wouldn't." Does that mean some do?

Thanks.
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I don't know of any.

If I'd said 'Native speakers never say that', somebody would have said 'I'm a native speaker and I say it'.
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Okay fair enough. Thanks for the answer.
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