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- Surrounded by or with? - WordReference Forums
Hm I would only say "surrounded with" if there is someone that has already been established, doing the "surrounding" For example: The soldiers surrounded the enemy with legion upon legion of armed centries, ready for combat They surrounded him with love In all other cases, I would use "surrounded by"
- the surrounding area the surrounded area - WordReference Forums
Yes, one could make one sentence, such as 3"The Soviet army came to Berlin; the surrounded city was doomed " In my sentence 2, post #2 we're talking about the mayor in his mansion at the center of the city, and the city surrounding his mansion
- Surround or Enclose - WordReference Forums
Something can be surrounded without actually creating a barrier An enclosure is a barrier of some kind, in my opinion I would say that "enclosed" implies that there is an inside and an outside and that the two are separated
- Youre surrounded of. . . - WordReference Forums
Walking into Tokyo station, you're surrounded of more 3,000 trains and a half a million people Walking into Tokyo station, you're surrounded by more than 3,000 trains and a half a million people For this sentence to be correct, surrounded needs by after it -- as OP suggests With works elsewhere but not in this sentence
- I saw him (being) surrounded by people - WordReference Forums
Hello, I saw him surrounded by people Regarding the sentence right above, would it be correct to assume that the word "being" has been omitted to understand how the final construction came to be? or is it irrelevant to the formation of the sentence? Thanks
- sat surrounded or was sitting surrounded? - WordReference Forums
"I sat surrounded by " and "I was sitting surrounded by " To be more precise, is it possible to replace "sat surrounded by" with "was sitting surrounded" in the following paragraph? In Central Park, near 86th Street, a middle-aged shabby woman sat surrounded by five soiled and haphazardly bred dogs They were retrieving and frolicking
- be surrounded by crowds or be surrounded by a crowd
'Surrounded by crowds' seems illogical, but I think it's just as natural as the others you use You can say all of them Think of it this way: it isn't the same crowd all the time; there's one crowd at one o'clock and an entirely different group of people surrounding his booth at two o'clock So there are multiple crowds
- Surrounded with nature. - WordReference Forums
Surrounded by is the idiom It is what 99 99 o o of English speakers would say If you say surrounded "with" it would be a matter of taste and you would be understood English prepositions require learning many of their usages by heart
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