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chinagary
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Posted: Thu Apr 30, 2009 8:10 pm Post subject: What's the difference? |
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Dear Sir or Madam,
What's the difference between "be covered with water" and "be covered in water"?
Yours,
Gary |
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dragn
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Posted: Fri May 01, 2009 9:18 pm Post subject: |
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| What's the difference between "be covered with water" and "be covered in water"? |
What's the difference? None. Either way, you're all wet.
I would say with. Why? Because in sounds funny. That's just about the only rule I know of that applies here.
To anyone who wants to keep searching for a magic rule that will unerringly guide a person to the "correct" choice between covered with and covered in that applies in every single case with no exceptions: godspeed, my friend. If you find such a rule, don't tell anyone: publish it and become a millionaire.
Greg |
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