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Bookmark or Share- Have/find difficulties | WordReference ForumsBritish English. Dec 5, 2013. #2. You can 'find difficulties' but not in your context. -I didn't have any difficulty understanding the sentence. -I didn't find any difficulty understanding the sentence. Т.
- Difficulty with or in - WordReference ForumsShe had difficulty breathing. A female native speaker once told me this: She has difficulty with swimming. (Use preposition "with" with "difficulty" only when the thing after it is a gerund - "swimming" in this case.) She has difficulty swimming in the river. (No preposition with "difficulty" when the thing after it is not a gerund)
- "any difficulty" or "any difficulties" - WordReference ForumsYou need to change "to find" to "finding" - then both are correct. The red text is equivalent to "difficulty" - the grammatical term escapes me for the moment. You won't have any difficulty finding your way around the city. You won't have any difficulties finding your way around the city. The first, with singular difficulty, seems a lot more ...
- difficulty doing <something> vs difficulty in doing <something>You can have "difficulty in" something that you might actually be "in" (physically, metaphorically, etc). E.g., "I am having difficulty in English class." You can also have "difficulty with" processes, e.g., "I am having difficulty with English grammar." However, as far as I can tell, if the "thing" with which you are having difficulty is a ...
- difficult to me/ for me? - WordReference ForumsOn the other hand, you might say that it was difficult to do something, in which case difficult would be followed by "to." For example, This book is difficult for me. This book is difficult to read. As for your second example, burdensome can be followed by either "to" or "for." Carrying so many packages is burdensome to him.
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