Timeline for I gave up with the crossword in the end. It was too difficult
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| Sep 14, 2016 at 0:31 | comment | added | Mark Foskey | If you just compare "gave up with" and "gave up on" you get much smoother curves, and there are a few other modern examples. But Dant's point is well taken - most of the supposed hits are like Dant describes, or say, "she gave up with a shrug, and...." | |
| Sep 11, 2016 at 0:34 | comment | added | Stats Cruncher | The ngram is the coolest site on English learning I have ever seen. The site showed "Ngrams not found: I gave up with the" from the corpus BRITISH English. So I know more than before. | |
| Sep 9, 2016 at 19:52 | comment | added | P. E. Dant Reinstate Monica | The ngram for I gave up on the / I gave up with the shows almost zero instances of the "with" usage. Most are Google search errors of the form "I gave up. With the..." The sole modern example is a forum comment by someone who may be a non-native speaker. | |
| Sep 9, 2016 at 19:34 | vote | accept | Stats Cruncher | ||
| Sep 9, 2016 at 19:03 | comment | added | user36764 | "Up" is also a preposition! | |
| Sep 9, 2016 at 18:59 | history | answered | Mark Foskey | CC BY-SA 3.0 |