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Mon 14 Aug, 2017 11:12 pm
A recent npr article began, "A Denver jury found fully in pop singer Taylor Swift's favor Monday, delivering a unanimous verdict in a trial over whether she was groped by a former radio host during a Denver meet-and-greet." My question relates to the use of the word "found" - can it be intransitive? I usually think of found as needing a complement (you must find "something") but, iln this case, the sentence doesn't say that the jury found "something," but rather that it found "in" T Swift's favor, so the preposition negates the possibility of a complement. I'm struggling with the structure of this sentence - Help??
The verb 'to find' has a legal usage where it means to reach a verdict. The judge found against the defendant. The jury found in favour of the prosecution. Mainly American.