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I am new to this forum and posting for the first time. Please help me with below Idioms question and also explain the difference with some other examples if possible.
Which sentence is ideomatically correct?
A. She is credited for solving numorous cases.
B. She is credited with solving numorous cases.
C. She is credited as being a great detective.
Thanks all.
Credited for/with/as
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Well Credited with and credited for both are correct idiom. It all comes down to in what context you are using.NMehendale wrote:Hey guys....
I am new to this forum and posting for the first time. Please help me with below Idioms question and also explain the difference with some other examples if possible.
Which sentence is ideomatically correct?
A. She is credited for solving numorous cases.
B. She is credited with solving numorous cases.
C. She is credited as being a great detective.
Thanks all.
John should get a lot of credit for the team's success.....Here Credit for is the correct idiom.
Credited with is generally used when some achieved is done......Newton is credited with various laws.
In your sentence A should be right.
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Hope this might help. It gives enough info about what you asked for
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Hope this might help. It gives enough info about what you asked for
Hope i am of some help!
You can, for example never foretell what any one man will do, but you can say with precision what an average number will be up to!
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Found this on Web..
[*]credit Somebody with Something (verb): give responsibility for. Thomas Edison is credited with inventing the light bulb.
[*]credit X to Y (verb): give money or credit to. The bank credited $1 million to trebla's account.
[*]credit for (noun): money received for or in exchange for something. The customer received a $20 credit for the interruption in service.
[*]credit Somebody with Something (verb): give responsibility for. Thomas Edison is credited with inventing the light bulb.
[*]credit X to Y (verb): give money or credit to. The bank credited $1 million to trebla's account.
[*]credit for (noun): money received for or in exchange for something. The customer received a $20 credit for the interruption in service.
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In your example, B is the correct idiom. You credit someone WITH doing the thing that he/she did. Newton is credited with discovering...
You credit some attribute TO a person/entity responsible for creating it.
The success of the mission was credited to years of hard work.
You give credit (used only as a noun) FOR something in exchange.
We received credit for all of our hard work.
"Credit as" is never correct.
You credit some attribute TO a person/entity responsible for creating it.
The success of the mission was credited to years of hard work.
You give credit (used only as a noun) FOR something in exchange.
We received credit for all of our hard work.
"Credit as" is never correct.
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