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there's no point doing v.s there's no point in doing 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:
Quote:
1. There's no point continuing you piano lessons, if your heart is not in it.
2. There's no point in continuing your piano lessons, if your heart is not in it.

My English teacher said that only option 2 is valid, though I found option 1 in my textbook as well. I'm puzzled - maybe it is a locale thing. Confused

Thanks!
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there's no point doing v.s there's no point in doing 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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there's no point doing v.s there's no point in doing 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?
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there's no point doing v.s there's no point in doing 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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there's no point doing v.s there's no point in doing 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
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there's no point doing v.s there's no point in doing 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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