Timeline for To browse a shop or to browse in a shop
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| when toggle format | what | by | license | comment | |
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| Jan 1, 2021 at 18:20 | vote | accept | SC for reinstatement of Monica | ||
| Feb 17, 2017 at 0:14 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackEnglish/status/832382793850167296 | ||
| Feb 16, 2017 at 19:54 | comment | added | John Lawler | Similar to many other shortenings in context, e.g shop (at/in) the mall. | |
| Feb 16, 2017 at 18:19 | answer | added | Manjunath Prabhakar | timeline score: 2 | |
| Feb 16, 2017 at 16:53 | answer | added | Davo | timeline score: 1 | |
| Feb 16, 2017 at 16:51 | comment | added | SC for reinstatement of Monica | @Davo: that really answered my question. Would you like to put it in an answer? | |
| Feb 16, 2017 at 16:41 | comment | added | Davo | From "browse the shop" I would take away the meaning that one looked through the window, to decide if it was worth entering. From "browse in the shop" I would take away the meaning that the person was in the shop, to decide if any products were worth purchasing. | |
| Feb 16, 2017 at 16:37 | comment | added | Barmar | The difference is that a shop is a place, so you can be in it. And browsing the products is something you do while you're in there. | |
| Feb 16, 2017 at 16:29 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | You could add research from say AHD (which has the 'browse a shop' example). It happily lists both transitive and intransitive usages. | |
| Feb 16, 2017 at 16:21 | history | asked | SC for reinstatement of Monica | CC BY-SA 3.0 |