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Joseph A Posted 8 years ago
Grammar

In Coming

Hello everyone,

Is the preposition "in" used correctly in the following sentence?

Captain Smollett seemed angry with everything on board and wasted no time in coming to the cabin to tell the squire.

Regards,

JA

  

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Yes.

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Joseph Awasted no time in coming to

After expressions of spending time (or wasting time) the "in" is optional, but usually omitted. There are thousands of cases in Google with "wasted time doing", but less than 100 for "wasted time in doing".

CJ

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