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Crowded With: Standard Pattern

Crowded With: Standard Pattern records a directly documented English construction and keeps guidance bounded to the evidenced pattern rather than turning one attested complement into a universal prohibition.

Quick answer

Use “crowded with” when a place or thing is full of many people or a large amount of something.

Key details

Confusion Familyusage-construction
Rule Familyadjective or complement construction
Termscrowded with

Further guidance

Construction

Use “crowded with” when a place or thing is full of many people or a large amount of something.

Style Boundary

Oxford documents “crowded with somebody” and “crowded (with something)”; this guide does not claim that every use of “crowded” requires a with-phrase.

Sources and evidence

Sources are shown with the role they play in this guide. Historical or style-sensitive claims are kept within the evidence boundary described above.

  1. Crowded — Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary (opens in a new tab)Oxford University Press · Direct Oxford learner-dictionary evidence for the Crowded With construction and its people/thing scope.

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