Use of BY and WITH

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Use of BY and WITH

Post by devraj » Wed Aug 29, 2018 10:15 am

"Nearly half of all private sector workers are employed by small business" in this sentence using "by" is correct or we should write "with" ?
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Re: Use of BY and WITH

Post by Joe » Wed Aug 29, 2018 10:28 am

by is correct
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Re: Use of BY and WITH

Post by devraj » Thu Aug 30, 2018 7:29 am

sir, can you please tell how to understand where to use 'with' and where to use 'by'?
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