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Sentence Construction Question

0 I would like to know if the sentence " I met with an accident" is incorrect. If yes what is the alternative for this sentence 0-
  

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0 "I met with an accident" is fine, depending upon how you want to use it. 0-

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  • 0 "I met with an accident" is fine, depending upon how you want to use it.
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0 "I met with an accident" is fine, depending upon how you want to use it. 0-
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0 "I met with an accident" is weird, at least in American English. 02br
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00Either you mean "I had an accident" or "I saw an accident (happen)", depending whether you mean you yourself were involved in the accident or you were not so involved. 02br
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00"I came across the scene of an accident" is another possibility. 02br
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0 "I met with an accident" is typical British English and it means, "I was INVOLVED in an accident." 0-
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0 Well, well! We learn something new every day! 02br
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00In American English "I met with" would typically be followed only by expressions such as "my boss", "the students", "the committee investigating the peculiarities of British English", and similar structures. 02br
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"I met with an accident" is still used is South Asia (India, Sri Lanka) as an everyday phrase and presumably was used in British English in colonial times. However, it is not used by by anyone under the age of 40 in speech. Do a Google search for "met with an accident" (include the quotation marks) and see what turns up - almost all the names and writers if the resulting pages will be Indian or S
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It sounds fine to me-- like a line from a detective movie. The heavy explains to the cop about the body on the floor with the axe imbedded in its forehead: He, uh, met with an accident, lieutenant.
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Hi Mister Micawber could you please tell who is that 'the heavy' happening to be? another officer who did see much brutal crime scenes before?
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Heavy as a noun is slang for bad guy or villain in a performance, KO.
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01cite10Temico12cite10"I met with an accident" is typical British English and it means, "I was INVOLVED in an accident."12blockquote
10Well, this is new to me. Typically, in the context of "accident", we, in the US, would say something like:02br
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00So and so was involved in an accident, or got
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10The passive doesn't work.0-
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