there's no point doing v.s there's no point in doing

lost_soul · Sat May 17, 2008 20:44 pm *there's no point doing v.s there's no point in doing*

Hi,

Which would you prefer:

Yankee · Sat May 17, 2008 23:59 pm *there's no point doing v.s there's no point in doing*

Hi Alex

Both versions are in use. The version with 'in' sounds more formal to me.
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nessie · Sun May 18, 2008 16:12 pm *there's no point doing v.s there's no point in doing*

Hi Amy,
The use of "in" also sounds more natural to me. One more question: Is it the same in British English?

Yankee · Mon May 19, 2008 3:04 am *there's no point doing v.s there's no point in doing*

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Both sound natural to me, Nessie.
Maybe Alan or MrP will comment on the usage in BE. Wink

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Molly · Mon May 19, 2008 9:56 am *there's no point doing v.s there's no point in doing*

Interesting to some:

A "refined" search gives.

In the BYU American Corpus:

was no point in + verb-ing - 173 per 1 million words
was no point + verb-ing - 30 per 1 million words

http://www.americancorpus.org/
.......

In the BNC:

was no point in + verb-ing - 149 per 1 million words
was point + verb-ing -15 times per 1 million words

http://corpus.byu.edu/bnc/

Search terms:

was no point in [v*]
was no point [v*]

On registers in the BNC.

is no point [v*]

SECTION - 0.1
SPOKEN - 0.1
FICTION - 0.0
NEWSPAPER - 0.6
ACADEMIC MISC - 0.1

....

is no point in [v*]

SPOKEN - 0.0
FICTION - 0.5
NEWSPAPER - 2.8
ACADEMIC - 1.2
MISC - 1.7

nessie · Mon May 19, 2008 18:41 pm *there's no point doing v.s there's no point in doing*

Yea, let's wait for their ideas Smile

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