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Alc24 Posted 16 years ago
Grammar

You find faults IN/WITH everything

WITH or IN?

- Do you find faults with/in everything?

Could you tell which of these to say please?

- You don't need (to be) 2 people to do this job./There doesn't need to be 2 people to do this job.
- The more you tell kids not to do things, the more they want to do them.

Thank you
  

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Hi Alc You could probably answer quite a few of your own questions simply by doing searches in COCA or the BNC . For example, if you do a search in COCA for 'find faults with', you will get only one single result. If you do a search for 'find faults in', you will get only 2 results.

— Yankee

  • Hi Alc You could probably answer quite a few of your own questions simply by doing searches in COCA or the BNC .
  • For example, if you do a search in COCA for 'find faults with', you will get only one single result.
  • If you do a search for 'find faults in', you will get only 2 results.
  • Those search results suggest that neither phrase is commonly used.
  • A search for 'find fault in' gets 9 results, and a search for 'find fault with' gets 92 results.
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Hi Alc

You could probably answer quite a few of your own questions simply by doing searches in COCA or the BNC.

For example, if you do a search in COCA for 'find faults with', you will get only one single result.
If you do a searc
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