Google, "your precarious friend"...:-)
It can even be smarter or dumber in one and same country.)Belka_Teacher пишет: ↑26 мар 2018, 00:55 I guess just Ukrainian google is smarter than the Russian one)))
I wonder why it gives Yety different numbers; the settings he has never touched.
"spot a mistake"
Page 10 of about 174 results (0.37 seconds)
"spot the mistake"
Page 8 of about 153 results (0.49 seconds)
"find a mistake"
Page 9 of about 164 results (0.35 seconds)
"find the mistake"
Page 14 of about 269 results (0.64 seconds)
Besides, you have to run the whole paradigm ("spotted, spotting") to evaluate the frequency more correctly and do the same with "spot the error":
Page 10 of about 189 results (0.40 seconds),
which seems to be the collocation more frequently used in language learning contexts.(?)
PS And then you suddenly find yourself where a dictionary brought you the first time...)))