The use of prepositions seems fast to be growing both random and illogical, despite the fact that even quite basic dictionaries usually indicate, often with examples, which preposition to use in a verb+preposition construction. This opening sentence of a recent news item offers a bizarre concept:
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| Link: The Independent, ‘Israel not included in HarperCollins map […]’ |
Omit means leave out, so it is not only inaccurate to use the preposition in, but also both illogical and counterintuitive. Oxford Dictionaries and Cambridge Dictionaries Online, amongst others, clearly show that this verb takes the preposition from.
omitted … in
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