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Fascination about snakes or in snakes are both wrong I would say fascination of for snakes depending on context If he likes learning about snakes, then he has a fascination for snakes If he likes snakes in general, he has a fascination of snakes
- Fascinated about, by, or with? | WordReference Forums
I'd use "by" in that sentence but you're more likely to hear: The film I saw yesterday was fascinating Both "fascinated by" and "fascinated with" can be used depending on the sentence
- fascination with - WordReference Forums
A person has a fascination with something they are very interested in (her fascination with the royal family), whereas something interesting holds a fascination for a person (words have always held a fascination for me) The Oxford English Corpus shows that the distinction is often blurred today, but it should be maintained in careful writing
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'Entertain a fascination for' floise adrien New Member Helsinki Suisse, Français Jan 7, 2008 #4
- its own fascination - WordReference Forums
In Les Miserables trans by Wilbour,page 50, there are the following sentences: Human thought has no limit At its risk and peril, it analyses and dissects its own fascination We could almost say that, by a sort of splendid reaction, it fascinates nature; the mysterious world which surrounds us
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Possibly, the author thought that this old usage sat well with the romantic fascination felt in the West for the cities of Turkestan Maclean was a member of the political elite, and it is well known that elites often adopt particular usages in order to set themselves apart from the masses
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I was interested in what the matching one was saying and wondering if the verb was really once 'I use to do something' - a present tense being, I suppose, a complicated way of saying 'I do something', then I came across this, with its suggestion that people all over the English-speaking world are writing I didn't use to do something where I would write I didn't used to do something
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