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Posted: **Fri Apr 01, 2005 1:23 am**

Which is better?
Is there any difference in meaning?
1-1. It is advisable (for you) not to trust in what he says.
1-2. It is advisable (for you) not to trust what he says.
2-1. I trust in him completely.
2-2. I trust him completely.
Thank you.

Posted: **Fri Apr 01, 2005 2:09 am**

I suppose you could argue about the meanings of 'trust' versus 'trust in' (former is more frequent, latter has religious flavour to it etc), but working with our limited "corpus" here of just a few sentences, the object in each pair is the same, so there is little discernible difference in meaning between 1-1 and 1-2, or 2-1 and 2-2.

Generally, I would be teaching only 'trust', and contrasting its range of meanings and uses with e.g. 'believe'.