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Asked on November 21, 2021 in Grammar.
At 1,
Look both ways = You already look in
both directions Thus the preposition is there, implied by the meaning – which you have to
know 🙂 In 2 and 3, “in” is normally required, e.g. “respect the directions” look here at the results at Google Books for the core part of your example at 3 “a different way from her” Practically all the contexts use an “in” in front
of the expression.
If an “in” is missing, that is rare and accidental, and not critical in informal speech.
Is
this because, at COCA CORPUS OF CONTEMPORARY
AMERICAN ENGLISH there are 25
samples for: “a different
way from” All of them except one use “in” in front of them? The one without using “in” is coming from an American Indian/Native, who obviously uses his own English, which is non-standard :
Date 2001 (Fall) Publication information Fall2001, Vol. 25 Issue 4, p579, 25p, 3bw Title Francis LaFlesche and the World of Letters. Source American Indian Quarterly Editions Original Words Only
Original Words
Sources Smith, Sherry L. Sources Origins/Forensics the American Indian Continent and the Pacific People (in a broader context) Indian Culture and Continuing Languages # Haines informed me that he understands how important salmon has always been to Ahousaht people, but that he also understands that whaling was extremely significant to the culture, and that’s pretty much gone, the way of the dodo. (the one who commanded the most respect by the American people at the time) “Our people would like to use fish differently from white people… is that a fashion that’s created an understanding of the past? He Carl Haines might eat it, but it’s like, it’s kind of a trophy thing. I like to put it that way, but that’s it like this is one that I caught. I am doing something irrational on his head.
Also refer to above example which is using the “in”: date 1999 (19990221) Title The COMEBACK; IF HILLARY
CLINTON’S CLIMB IN POPULARITY POLLS WILL ENSURE HIS FUTURE Source CBS SunMorn
What is it like to say that Katlena Frankovic was being judged by different standards than other first ladies but part of that is probably because she was acting as first lady in a different way from other first ladies. (Voiceover) Kathleen Frankovic heads the CBS News polling unit.
Further, at the The British National Corpus (BNC)
try to look up for
a different way from
Please tell me how many results are using “in” I’d say all.
And this means that all three statistics are consistent: BNC, Google, GC & BNC, and all three Google Books. For some reason you haven’t taken the position that in is optional at 3.
What are some good suggestions or tactics to tackle the problem?
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Asked on November 20, 2021 in Grammar.
At 1,
Look both ways = You already look in
both directions Thus the preposition is there, implied by the meaning – which you have to
know 🙂 In 2 and 3, “in” is normally required, e.g. “respect the directions” look here at the results at Google Books for the core part of your example at 3 “a different way from her” Practically all the contexts use an “in” in front
of the expression.
If an “in” is missing, that is rare and accidental, and not critical in informal speech.
Is
this because, at COCA CORPUS OF CONTEMPORARY
AMERICAN ENGLISH there are 25
samples for: “a different
way from” All of them except one use “in” in front of them? The one without using “in” is coming from an American Indian/Native, who obviously uses his own English, which is non-standard :
Date 2001 (Fall) Publication information Fall2001, Vol. 25 Issue 4, p579, 25p, 3bw Title Francis LaFlesche and the World of Letters. Source American Indian Quarterly Editions Original Words Only
Original Words
Sources Smith, Sherry L. Sources Origins/Forensics the American Indian Continent and the Pacific People (in a broader context) Indian Culture and Continuing Languages # Haines informed me that he understands how important salmon has always been to Ahousaht people, but that he also understands that whaling was extremely significant to the culture, and that’s pretty much gone, the way of the dodo. (the one who commanded the most respect by the American people at the time) “Our people would like to use fish differently from white people… is that a fashion that’s created an understanding of the past? He Carl Haines might eat it, but it’s like, it’s kind of a trophy thing. I like to put it that way, but that’s it like this is one that I caught. I am doing something irrational on his head.
Also refer to above example which is using the “in”: date 1999 (19990221) Title The COMEBACK; IF HILLARY
CLINTON’S CLIMB IN POPULARITY POLLS WILL ENSURE HIS FUTURE Source CBS SunMorn
What is it like to say that Katlena Frankovic was being judged by different standards than other first ladies but part of that is probably because she was acting as first lady in a different way from other first ladies. (Voiceover) Kathleen Frankovic heads the CBS News polling unit.
Further, at the The British National Corpus (BNC)
try to look up for
a different way from
Please tell me how many results are using “in” I’d say all.
And this means that all three statistics are consistent: BNC, Google, GC & BNC, and all three Google Books. For some reason you haven’t taken the position that in is optional at 3.
What are some good suggestions or tactics to tackle the problem?
- 298248 views
- 440 answers
- 108948 votes
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Asked on November 20, 2021 in Grammar.
At 1,
Look both ways = You already look in
both directions Thus the preposition is there, implied by the meaning – which you have to
know 🙂 In 2 and 3, “in” is normally required, e.g. “respect the directions” look here at the results at Google Books for the core part of your example at 3 “a different way from her” Practically all the contexts use an “in” in front
of the expression.
If an “in” is missing, that is rare and accidental, and not critical in informal speech.
Is
this because, at COCA CORPUS OF CONTEMPORARY
AMERICAN ENGLISH there are 25
samples for: “a different
way from” All of them except one use “in” in front of them? The one without using “in” is coming from an American Indian/Native, who obviously uses his own English, which is non-standard :
Date 2001 (Fall) Publication information Fall2001, Vol. 25 Issue 4, p579, 25p, 3bw Title Francis LaFlesche and the World of Letters. Source American Indian Quarterly Editions Original Words Only
Original Words
Sources Smith, Sherry L. Sources Origins/Forensics the American Indian Continent and the Pacific People (in a broader context) Indian Culture and Continuing Languages # Haines informed me that he understands how important salmon has always been to Ahousaht people, but that he also understands that whaling was extremely significant to the culture, and that’s pretty much gone, the way of the dodo. (the one who commanded the most respect by the American people at the time) “Our people would like to use fish differently from white people… is that a fashion that’s created an understanding of the past? He Carl Haines might eat it, but it’s like, it’s kind of a trophy thing. I like to put it that way, but that’s it like this is one that I caught. I am doing something irrational on his head.
Also refer to above example which is using the “in”: date 1999 (19990221) Title The COMEBACK; IF HILLARY
CLINTON’S CLIMB IN POPULARITY POLLS WILL ENSURE HIS FUTURE Source CBS SunMorn
What is it like to say that Katlena Frankovic was being judged by different standards than other first ladies but part of that is probably because she was acting as first lady in a different way from other first ladies. (Voiceover) Kathleen Frankovic heads the CBS News polling unit.
Further, at the The British National Corpus (BNC)
try to look up for
a different way from
Please tell me how many results are using “in” I’d say all.
And this means that all three statistics are consistent: BNC, Google, GC & BNC, and all three Google Books. For some reason you haven’t taken the position that in is optional at 3.
What are some good suggestions or tactics to tackle the problem?
- 298248 views
- 440 answers
- 108948 votes
-
Asked on November 19, 2021 in Grammar.
At 1,
Look both ways = You already look in
both directions Thus the preposition is there, implied by the meaning – which you have to
know 🙂 In 2 and 3, “in” is normally required, e.g. “respect the directions” look here at the results at Google Books for the core part of your example at 3 “a different way from her” Practically all the contexts use an “in” in front
of the expression.
If an “in” is missing, that is rare and accidental, and not critical in informal speech.
Is
this because, at COCA CORPUS OF CONTEMPORARY
AMERICAN ENGLISH there are 25
samples for: “a different
way from” All of them except one use “in” in front of them? The one without using “in” is coming from an American Indian/Native, who obviously uses his own English, which is non-standard :
Date 2001 (Fall) Publication information Fall2001, Vol. 25 Issue 4, p579, 25p, 3bw Title Francis LaFlesche and the World of Letters. Source American Indian Quarterly Editions Original Words Only
Original Words
Sources Smith, Sherry L. Sources Origins/Forensics the American Indian Continent and the Pacific People (in a broader context) Indian Culture and Continuing Languages # Haines informed me that he understands how important salmon has always been to Ahousaht people, but that he also understands that whaling was extremely significant to the culture, and that’s pretty much gone, the way of the dodo. (the one who commanded the most respect by the American people at the time) “Our people would like to use fish differently from white people… is that a fashion that’s created an understanding of the past? He Carl Haines might eat it, but it’s like, it’s kind of a trophy thing. I like to put it that way, but that’s it like this is one that I caught. I am doing something irrational on his head.
Also refer to above example which is using the “in”: date 1999 (19990221) Title The COMEBACK; IF HILLARY
CLINTON’S CLIMB IN POPULARITY POLLS WILL ENSURE HIS FUTURE Source CBS SunMorn
What is it like to say that Katlena Frankovic was being judged by different standards than other first ladies but part of that is probably because she was acting as first lady in a different way from other first ladies. (Voiceover) Kathleen Frankovic heads the CBS News polling unit.
Further, at the The British National Corpus (BNC)
try to look up for
a different way from
Please tell me how many results are using “in” I’d say all.
And this means that all three statistics are consistent: BNC, Google, GC & BNC, and all three Google Books. For some reason you haven’t taken the position that in is optional at 3.
What are some good suggestions or tactics to tackle the problem?
- 298248 views
- 440 answers
- 108948 votes
-
Asked on November 19, 2021 in Grammar.
At 1,
Look both ways = You already look in
both directions Thus the preposition is there, implied by the meaning – which you have to
know 🙂 In 2 and 3, “in” is normally required, e.g. “respect the directions” look here at the results at Google Books for the core part of your example at 3 “a different way from her” Practically all the contexts use an “in” in front
of the expression.
If an “in” is missing, that is rare and accidental, and not critical in informal speech.
Is
this because, at COCA CORPUS OF CONTEMPORARY
AMERICAN ENGLISH there are 25
samples for: “a different
way from” All of them except one use “in” in front of them? The one without using “in” is coming from an American Indian/Native, who obviously uses his own English, which is non-standard :
Date 2001 (Fall) Publication information Fall2001, Vol. 25 Issue 4, p579, 25p, 3bw Title Francis LaFlesche and the World of Letters. Source American Indian Quarterly Editions Original Words Only
Original Words
Sources Smith, Sherry L. Sources Origins/Forensics the American Indian Continent and the Pacific People (in a broader context) Indian Culture and Continuing Languages # Haines informed me that he understands how important salmon has always been to Ahousaht people, but that he also understands that whaling was extremely significant to the culture, and that’s pretty much gone, the way of the dodo. (the one who commanded the most respect by the American people at the time) “Our people would like to use fish differently from white people… is that a fashion that’s created an understanding of the past? He Carl Haines might eat it, but it’s like, it’s kind of a trophy thing. I like to put it that way, but that’s it like this is one that I caught. I am doing something irrational on his head.
Also refer to above example which is using the “in”: date 1999 (19990221) Title The COMEBACK; IF HILLARY
CLINTON’S CLIMB IN POPULARITY POLLS WILL ENSURE HIS FUTURE Source CBS SunMorn
What is it like to say that Katlena Frankovic was being judged by different standards than other first ladies but part of that is probably because she was acting as first lady in a different way from other first ladies. (Voiceover) Kathleen Frankovic heads the CBS News polling unit.
Further, at the The British National Corpus (BNC)
try to look up for
a different way from
Please tell me how many results are using “in” I’d say all.
And this means that all three statistics are consistent: BNC, Google, GC & BNC, and all three Google Books. For some reason you haven’t taken the position that in is optional at 3.
What are some good suggestions or tactics to tackle the problem?
- 298248 views
- 440 answers
- 108948 votes
-
Asked on November 19, 2021 in Grammar.
At 1,
Look both ways = You already look in
both directions Thus the preposition is there, implied by the meaning – which you have to
know 🙂 In 2 and 3, “in” is normally required, e.g. “respect the directions” look here at the results at Google Books for the core part of your example at 3 “a different way from her” Practically all the contexts use an “in” in front
of the expression.
If an “in” is missing, that is rare and accidental, and not critical in informal speech.
Is
this because, at COCA CORPUS OF CONTEMPORARY
AMERICAN ENGLISH there are 25
samples for: “a different
way from” All of them except one use “in” in front of them? The one without using “in” is coming from an American Indian/Native, who obviously uses his own English, which is non-standard :
Date 2001 (Fall) Publication information Fall2001, Vol. 25 Issue 4, p579, 25p, 3bw Title Francis LaFlesche and the World of Letters. Source American Indian Quarterly Editions Original Words Only
Original Words
Sources Smith, Sherry L. Sources Origins/Forensics the American Indian Continent and the Pacific People (in a broader context) Indian Culture and Continuing Languages # Haines informed me that he understands how important salmon has always been to Ahousaht people, but that he also understands that whaling was extremely significant to the culture, and that’s pretty much gone, the way of the dodo. (the one who commanded the most respect by the American people at the time) “Our people would like to use fish differently from white people… is that a fashion that’s created an understanding of the past? He Carl Haines might eat it, but it’s like, it’s kind of a trophy thing. I like to put it that way, but that’s it like this is one that I caught. I am doing something irrational on his head.
Also refer to above example which is using the “in”: date 1999 (19990221) Title The COMEBACK; IF HILLARY
CLINTON’S CLIMB IN POPULARITY POLLS WILL ENSURE HIS FUTURE Source CBS SunMorn
What is it like to say that Katlena Frankovic was being judged by different standards than other first ladies but part of that is probably because she was acting as first lady in a different way from other first ladies. (Voiceover) Kathleen Frankovic heads the CBS News polling unit.
Further, at the The British National Corpus (BNC)
try to look up for
a different way from
Please tell me how many results are using “in” I’d say all.
And this means that all three statistics are consistent: BNC, Google, GC & BNC, and all three Google Books. For some reason you haven’t taken the position that in is optional at 3.
What are some good suggestions or tactics to tackle the problem?
- 298248 views
- 440 answers
- 108948 votes
-
Asked on November 18, 2021 in Grammar.
At 1,
Look both ways = You already look in
both directions Thus the preposition is there, implied by the meaning – which you have to
know 🙂 In 2 and 3, “in” is normally required, e.g. “respect the directions” look here at the results at Google Books for the core part of your example at 3 “a different way from her” Practically all the contexts use an “in” in front
of the expression.
If an “in” is missing, that is rare and accidental, and not critical in informal speech.
Is
this because, at COCA CORPUS OF CONTEMPORARY
AMERICAN ENGLISH there are 25
samples for: “a different
way from” All of them except one use “in” in front of them? The one without using “in” is coming from an American Indian/Native, who obviously uses his own English, which is non-standard :
Date 2001 (Fall) Publication information Fall2001, Vol. 25 Issue 4, p579, 25p, 3bw Title Francis LaFlesche and the World of Letters. Source American Indian Quarterly Editions Original Words Only
Original Words
Sources Smith, Sherry L. Sources Origins/Forensics the American Indian Continent and the Pacific People (in a broader context) Indian Culture and Continuing Languages # Haines informed me that he understands how important salmon has always been to Ahousaht people, but that he also understands that whaling was extremely significant to the culture, and that’s pretty much gone, the way of the dodo. (the one who commanded the most respect by the American people at the time) “Our people would like to use fish differently from white people… is that a fashion that’s created an understanding of the past? He Carl Haines might eat it, but it’s like, it’s kind of a trophy thing. I like to put it that way, but that’s it like this is one that I caught. I am doing something irrational on his head.
Also refer to above example which is using the “in”: date 1999 (19990221) Title The COMEBACK; IF HILLARY
CLINTON’S CLIMB IN POPULARITY POLLS WILL ENSURE HIS FUTURE Source CBS SunMorn
What is it like to say that Katlena Frankovic was being judged by different standards than other first ladies but part of that is probably because she was acting as first lady in a different way from other first ladies. (Voiceover) Kathleen Frankovic heads the CBS News polling unit.
Further, at the The British National Corpus (BNC)
try to look up for
a different way from
Please tell me how many results are using “in” I’d say all.
And this means that all three statistics are consistent: BNC, Google, GC & BNC, and all three Google Books. For some reason you haven’t taken the position that in is optional at 3.
What are some good suggestions or tactics to tackle the problem?
- 298248 views
- 440 answers
- 108948 votes
-
Asked on November 18, 2021 in Grammar.
At 1,
Look both ways = You already look in
both directions Thus the preposition is there, implied by the meaning – which you have to
know 🙂 In 2 and 3, “in” is normally required, e.g. “respect the directions” look here at the results at Google Books for the core part of your example at 3 “a different way from her” Practically all the contexts use an “in” in front
of the expression.
If an “in” is missing, that is rare and accidental, and not critical in informal speech.
Is
this because, at COCA CORPUS OF CONTEMPORARY
AMERICAN ENGLISH there are 25
samples for: “a different
way from” All of them except one use “in” in front of them? The one without using “in” is coming from an American Indian/Native, who obviously uses his own English, which is non-standard :
Date 2001 (Fall) Publication information Fall2001, Vol. 25 Issue 4, p579, 25p, 3bw Title Francis LaFlesche and the World of Letters. Source American Indian Quarterly Editions Original Words Only
Original Words
Sources Smith, Sherry L. Sources Origins/Forensics the American Indian Continent and the Pacific People (in a broader context) Indian Culture and Continuing Languages # Haines informed me that he understands how important salmon has always been to Ahousaht people, but that he also understands that whaling was extremely significant to the culture, and that’s pretty much gone, the way of the dodo. (the one who commanded the most respect by the American people at the time) “Our people would like to use fish differently from white people… is that a fashion that’s created an understanding of the past? He Carl Haines might eat it, but it’s like, it’s kind of a trophy thing. I like to put it that way, but that’s it like this is one that I caught. I am doing something irrational on his head.
Also refer to above example which is using the “in”: date 1999 (19990221) Title The COMEBACK; IF HILLARY
CLINTON’S CLIMB IN POPULARITY POLLS WILL ENSURE HIS FUTURE Source CBS SunMorn
What is it like to say that Katlena Frankovic was being judged by different standards than other first ladies but part of that is probably because she was acting as first lady in a different way from other first ladies. (Voiceover) Kathleen Frankovic heads the CBS News polling unit.
Further, at the The British National Corpus (BNC)
try to look up for
a different way from
Please tell me how many results are using “in” I’d say all.
And this means that all three statistics are consistent: BNC, Google, GC & BNC, and all three Google Books. For some reason you haven’t taken the position that in is optional at 3.
What are some good suggestions or tactics to tackle the problem?
- 298248 views
- 440 answers
- 108948 votes
-
Asked on November 16, 2021 in Grammar.
At 1,
Look both ways = You already look in
both directions Thus the preposition is there, implied by the meaning – which you have to
know 🙂 In 2 and 3, “in” is normally required, e.g. “respect the directions” look here at the results at Google Books for the core part of your example at 3 “a different way from her” Practically all the contexts use an “in” in front
of the expression.
If an “in” is missing, that is rare and accidental, and not critical in informal speech.
Is
this because, at COCA CORPUS OF CONTEMPORARY
AMERICAN ENGLISH there are 25
samples for: “a different
way from” All of them except one use “in” in front of them? The one without using “in” is coming from an American Indian/Native, who obviously uses his own English, which is non-standard :
Date 2001 (Fall) Publication information Fall2001, Vol. 25 Issue 4, p579, 25p, 3bw Title Francis LaFlesche and the World of Letters. Source American Indian Quarterly Editions Original Words Only
Original Words
Sources Smith, Sherry L. Sources Origins/Forensics the American Indian Continent and the Pacific People (in a broader context) Indian Culture and Continuing Languages # Haines informed me that he understands how important salmon has always been to Ahousaht people, but that he also understands that whaling was extremely significant to the culture, and that’s pretty much gone, the way of the dodo. (the one who commanded the most respect by the American people at the time) “Our people would like to use fish differently from white people… is that a fashion that’s created an understanding of the past? He Carl Haines might eat it, but it’s like, it’s kind of a trophy thing. I like to put it that way, but that’s it like this is one that I caught. I am doing something irrational on his head.
Also refer to above example which is using the “in”: date 1999 (19990221) Title The COMEBACK; IF HILLARY
CLINTON’S CLIMB IN POPULARITY POLLS WILL ENSURE HIS FUTURE Source CBS SunMorn
What is it like to say that Katlena Frankovic was being judged by different standards than other first ladies but part of that is probably because she was acting as first lady in a different way from other first ladies. (Voiceover) Kathleen Frankovic heads the CBS News polling unit.
Further, at the The British National Corpus (BNC)
try to look up for
a different way from
Please tell me how many results are using “in” I’d say all.
And this means that all three statistics are consistent: BNC, Google, GC & BNC, and all three Google Books. For some reason you haven’t taken the position that in is optional at 3.
What are some good suggestions or tactics to tackle the problem?
- 298248 views
- 440 answers
- 108948 votes
-
Asked on November 16, 2021 in Grammar.
At 1,
Look both ways = You already look in
both directions Thus the preposition is there, implied by the meaning – which you have to
know 🙂 In 2 and 3, “in” is normally required, e.g. “respect the directions” look here at the results at Google Books for the core part of your example at 3 “a different way from her” Practically all the contexts use an “in” in front
of the expression.
If an “in” is missing, that is rare and accidental, and not critical in informal speech.
Is
this because, at COCA CORPUS OF CONTEMPORARY
AMERICAN ENGLISH there are 25
samples for: “a different
way from” All of them except one use “in” in front of them? The one without using “in” is coming from an American Indian/Native, who obviously uses his own English, which is non-standard :
Date 2001 (Fall) Publication information Fall2001, Vol. 25 Issue 4, p579, 25p, 3bw Title Francis LaFlesche and the World of Letters. Source American Indian Quarterly Editions Original Words Only
Original Words
Sources Smith, Sherry L. Sources Origins/Forensics the American Indian Continent and the Pacific People (in a broader context) Indian Culture and Continuing Languages # Haines informed me that he understands how important salmon has always been to Ahousaht people, but that he also understands that whaling was extremely significant to the culture, and that’s pretty much gone, the way of the dodo. (the one who commanded the most respect by the American people at the time) “Our people would like to use fish differently from white people… is that a fashion that’s created an understanding of the past? He Carl Haines might eat it, but it’s like, it’s kind of a trophy thing. I like to put it that way, but that’s it like this is one that I caught. I am doing something irrational on his head.
Also refer to above example which is using the “in”: date 1999 (19990221) Title The COMEBACK; IF HILLARY
CLINTON’S CLIMB IN POPULARITY POLLS WILL ENSURE HIS FUTURE Source CBS SunMorn
What is it like to say that Katlena Frankovic was being judged by different standards than other first ladies but part of that is probably because she was acting as first lady in a different way from other first ladies. (Voiceover) Kathleen Frankovic heads the CBS News polling unit.
Further, at the The British National Corpus (BNC)
try to look up for
a different way from
Please tell me how many results are using “in” I’d say all.
And this means that all three statistics are consistent: BNC, Google, GC & BNC, and all three Google Books. For some reason you haven’t taken the position that in is optional at 3.
What are some good suggestions or tactics to tackle the problem?
- 298248 views
- 440 answers
- 108948 votes