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Ouc Posted 19 years ago
Vocabulary

visit with

0 The first sentence in the first article of one of my journals is "I recently 01font01b00visited with02b02font00 my friend, Sam Roymond, in his kitchen near Woods Hole, Massachusetts"02br
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00At the first glance, I was puzzled by using "visited with", but using "visited" my friend. After reading carfully the sentecne again, I realized the phrase of "in his kitchen".02br
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00By looking up it in an online dictionary, I find the "01font00visited with02font00" here equals to "01font00interviewed02font00" or "01font00talked with02font00".02br
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00Mrs. Laura Bush 01b00visited with02b00 patients and their family members at the Korle-Bu Treatment Center, Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2006 in Accra,02h2

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00Congressman George Miller 01b00visited with02b00 students at an event for Upward Bound on 01b00...02br
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02b00A 01b00Visit With02b00 Castro. 02br
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00"A 01b00Visit with02b00 Mrs. G" 02br
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1u 00American02u 00 English: "I recently 01font 01b 00visited with02b 02font 00 my friend, Sam Roymond, in his kitchen near Woods Hole, Massachusetts" and "00Mrs. 02br 02br 01u 00British02u 00 English: "I recently 01font 01b 00visited 02b 02font 00my friend, Sam Roymond, in his kitchen near Woods Hole, Massachusetts" and "00Mrs. 02br 02br 00"Visited"?

— Widget

  • 1u 00American02u 00 English: "I recently 01font 01b 00visited with02b 02font 00 my friend, Sam Roymond, in his kitchen near Woods Hole, Massachusetts" and "00Mrs.
  • 02br 02br 01u 00British02u 00 English: "I recently 01font 01b 00visited 02b 02font 00my friend, Sam Roymond, in his kitchen near Woods Hole, Massachusetts" and "00Mrs.
  • 02br 02br 00"Visited"?
  • Or "visited 01b 00with02b 00"?
  • It depends on where you are in the world 050010id1
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1u00American02u00 English: "I recently 01font01b00visited with02b02font00 my friend, Sam Roymond, in his kitchen near Woods Hole, Massachusetts" and "00Mrs. Laura Bush 01font01b00visited with02b02font00 patients and their family members at the Korle-Bu T
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0Hello Ouc02br
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00It's not very common in British English; I think in American English it implies "to visit and converse with amicably".02br
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00(But I'm open to correction.)02br
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0Yes, a nice description, Mr. P. 02br
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01i00I enjoyed a nice visit with my parents. 02i02br
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00In the South, 01i00visit 02i00isn't even transitive. 01i00What did you do? We just visited. 02i00(Sat and talked.)0-
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0 I didnt get the point, both US and UK expressions mean the same thing? 0-
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0 Mr. P said that "visit with" isn't used much in the UK. 0-
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01cite10Grammar Geek12cite10Mr. P said that "visit with" isn't used much in the UK.12blockquote
10Yes; I would only expect to hear "meet with" from a BrE-speaker who had much to do with AmE-speakers (or watched a lot of US tv).02br
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00MrP0-
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0"Visited 01b01u00with02u02b00" is mainly used in the US, and countries with a connection to the US. 02br
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00In the UK, and countries with a colonial connection to the UK, it's more usual to say, for example, 01b00"I'm going to 01font00visit02font00 my friends02b00"
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