The body consists of cells. In is the correct preposition to use in your first example: Meditation consists in attentive watchfulness. Consist of means to be composed or made up of, while …

Mar 3, 2007 · Here's an excellent citation I found on another website: Consist in means “is inherent in or lies within”: His social success consists in being able to persuade everyone of …

The verb consist is never used without a preposition and it usually takes either of or in. In your example, it should be consist of. Thus, the first sentence is correct while the second is wrong. …

Jul 24, 2018 · I found a confusing usage of "consist of" in Belles Make Up site: Water consists of 70% of our whole body. I think that above sentence is wrong because water is within our body, …

Sep 26, 2016 · The proof consists of two parts (or steps). Is consists of correct or it should be consists in instead ? and why ?

In other words, are there nuances to the word consist that shade the meaning in such a way that a different preposition is desirable? Note that a search of the corpus shows consists in steadily …

Jan 24, 2015 · I am looking for the differences between contain, include, and consist of; I am interested in precise use of each word in an appropriate context. Aside from their general …

Consists of is plenty fine; otherwise see the treasure-book’s General Reference suggestions for comprises, covers, includes, involves, entails, consists of, is composed of, is made up of, …

Jan 14, 2015 · Welcome to the forum, sutier. Edit: In my opinion, the correct preposition to use with "consist" is "of". "Consist in" sounds completely wrong to my ear. You can find this topic …

Jan 1, 2009 · I'm kind of confused about when to use 'consisted of' and when to use 'consisting of' or consist (s) of. My guess is that when preceded by 'is' or 'are'...