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Dileepa Posted 6 years ago
Grammar
How to use the phrase "the wrong way" properly?
I fond the following sentence in a movie. Though this is a simple sentence, I cannot understand why they just use "the wrong way" without any prepositions before that. I mean, I would really appreciate it if someone could let me know whey they haven't used "in the wrong way" instead of just "the wrong way".
Perhaps I've been selfish, looking at this the wrong way. (why not in the wrong way)
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Either expression is fine.
- Either expression is fine.
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If we take fraze.it as our cue, 'the wrong way' is perhaps the base form, and 'in the wrong way' is the variant.
'the wrong way' — 1794 hits (95.6%)
'in the wrong way' — 83 hits (4.4%)
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