Complain

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1.I complained to the manager that the gym is untidy today.

The above is fine.
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2.I complained about the untidy nature of the gym.
Is this correct too?

Clive · Accepted Answer

Hi,

Yes. Both are fine.

Clive

Marius Hancu · Answer

>I complained about the untidy nature of the gym.

nature might seem pretentions in some contexts
otherwise both should be fine

Rotter · Answer

I thank Clive and Marius for the reply.

A friend of mine told me it would be incorrect to use 'about' or 'of' here.

One should use the words 'about' or 'of' only to your doctor.
1. When you go to a doctor, you complain of pain in the ..........
2. When you go to a doctor, you complain about some pains in the ..........

BarbaraPA · Answer

No, "about" is perfectly acceptabe.

Marius Hancu · Answer

Rotter

A friend of mine told me it would be incorrect to use 'about' or 'of' here.

One should use the words 'about' or 'of' only to your doctor.
1. When you go to a doctor, you complain of pain in the ..........
2. When you go to a doctor, you complain about some pains in the ..........

Well, I made a search on
"complain about"
(the quotation marks are important to group up the words)
at
http://www.theatlantic.com
which is reputed for using good English:

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James Fallows Interview
... or Ohio, they think, "Oh, that's just good journalism." They
almost never complain about the projects themselves. What they
complain about is the label "public ...

The Atlantic Online
... this failure? Rhymes With Rich Do wealthy women have a right to
complain about the difficult choice between home and career? Discuss
Sandra Tsing Loh's book ...

Carlson - Round Three
... Generation X,' by whom we actually mean educated, young, white
people, complain about their lack of opportunity, we should properly
respond by saying, "JOIN ...

The Atlantic | February 2002 | Innocent Bystander | Murphy
... view than they currently do. Book publishers may complain about a
glut of memoirs, but they continue to publish truckloads of
them. Every week thousands of ...

"High Stakes Are for Tomatoes" - 00.08
... Among the most articulate critics of the tests are the boycotting
students, who complain about narrowing opportunities and shrinking
curricula. The most ...

DC Dispatch | 2002.02.20 | Schneider
... His key phrase was "get back to." How smart is it for Democrats to
complain about the deficit during a war and a recession? Not very. Yet
some Democrats are ...

Lessig - Response
... the balance. There are many (and count me in) who would bitterly
complain about the sellout to special interests that much of the
codified copyright law ...
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I don't see anything about doctors here.
Don't believe anyone until you make a search yourself at Yahoo or Google.

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