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New2grammar Posted 18 years ago
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All our products are made using 100% vegetable oil.

All our products are prepared in 100% vegetable oil.

All our products are made in 100% vegetable oil.

Please help me identify the differences. To me, they are equivalent. Thanks in advance.
  

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-- sounds like the staff need goggles and flippers, or at least rubber boots . -- sounds even odder, as if the oil were even less central to the product .

— Mister Micawber

  • -- sounds like the staff need goggles and flippers, or at least rubber boots .
  • -- sounds even odder, as if the oil were even less central to the product .
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All our products are made using 100% vegetable oil.-- this is the standard phraseology

All our products are prepared in 100% vegetable oil.-- sounds like the staff need goggles and flippers, or at least rubber boots.

All our products are made in 100% vegetable oil.-- sounds even odder, as if the oil were even less central to the product
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One wonders if we're speaking of deep fried chicken or margarine. In one case the oil is part of a process and only a small portion of it would be consumed. In the other, the oil is an integral part of the product.

(These days, transfats are the bigger issue, which may or may not be part of 100% vegetable oil.)

They have tricky ways to confuse you. In the first one, picture a
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Does it change your interpretation if I tell you that #2 comes from the Burger King menu?
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Not mine. Burger King marketeers are not known for their literacy.
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