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Are these sentences OK? You interfere when you shouldn't. You're meddling in when you shouldn't. You're sticking your nose in when you shouldn't.
May 17, 2025 9:39 PM
Answers · 3
The basically all mean the same thing. To me the second sentence sounds incorrect. If you say 'meddling in' there needs to be a direct object, So either: You're meddling. OR You're meddling in other peoples' business. etc.
8 hours ago
Yes, all of these work.
13 hours ago
So the second and third sentences wouldn't need the word "in." I will, however, add that the second and third feel a bit odd to my American English speaking ear. "You're meddling where you shouldn't" feels more natural to me (and can mean either "at a time when you shouldn't" or "in a place/situation where you shouldn't"). Similarly, but slightly different, the idiom "to stick one's nose" is almost always used with "where it doesn't belong"... "Where you shouldn't" isn't *technically* wrong, or even unintelligible, it's just something that would strike me as unusual.
May 17, 2025 10:27 PM
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