Timeline for How to use "allow to do something" without mentioning a person?
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| Mar 8, 2019 at 17:50 | comment | added | jsw29 | Saying that the software allows for resizing can be interpreted to mean that it can handle, accommodate, deal with, take into account, the resizing (that may be done outside the software itself). That is subtly different from the meaning of to allow resizing (without for). | |
| Mar 8, 2019 at 13:33 | comment | added | user22542 | I would probably use "allows for resizing" with the verb "allows", but the choice is yours. Other verbs you might use are "permits" or "facilitates", but I would not use "for" with these. | |
| Mar 8, 2019 at 13:23 | comment | added | Hellion | another verb choice would be enables. | |
| Mar 8, 2019 at 13:21 | comment | added | Basj | Thank you. Which one is the most common: "allows for resizing ..." or "allows resizing..."? Also what other verb than "allow" is frequently used? | |
| Mar 8, 2019 at 13:07 | history | answered | user22542 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |