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Forum: English Questions Jul 8th, 2016, 06:55 am
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Posted By susan53
Re: surprised

to + infinitive

Using a corpus of 3m words, both US and UK English, I got the following results :

surprised to + infinitive : 16 occurrences
surprised at + gerund : 0 occurrences

surprised at...
Forum: English Questions Jul 3rd, 2016, 05:10 am
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Posted By susan53
Re: surprised

Just a note - "at" is a preposition - which is why it must be followed by a noun phrase or gerund. So as Sidewalker says there's no difference in meaning, just a difference in the construction. ...
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