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Healer Posted 11 years ago
Vocabulary

One specializes in or is specialized in?

Should we say that "someone specializes in something" or "someone is specialized in something"?
  

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Say eg "He specializes in orthodontistry". Or eg "She is an orthodontic specialist".

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  • Say eg "He specializes in orthodontistry".
  • Or eg "She is an orthodontic specialist".
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Say eg "He specializes in orthodontistry".

Or eg "She is an orthodontic specialist".
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Thanks, I have been doing the way you suggest.

However, I came across a lot of examples on the Internet saying in the syntax similar to "Someone is specialized in something."
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healerHowever, I came across a lot of examples on the Internet saying in the syntax similar to "Someone is specialized in something."
The internet is a wonderful place for finding millions of examples of unnatural and/or incorrect English.

Remember that only twenty years ago what most of us normally saw in print only what reasonably educated people ha
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