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Prepositions are function words like "to", "over", "through", "in". The meaning of a sentence can be dramatically altered by choosing the wrong preposition. Questions need to include enough information for the intended meaning to be deduced.
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How do I apply on and off using 'and' in the middle?
You can use a suspended hyphen to connect two words that share a base word with "and."
Wikipedia gives the example preoperative and postoperative for words that are normally written without hyphens, …
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Correct Preposition in the Phrase "Someone's back was turned ___ someone else"
Prepositions are a notoriously difficult feature of languages; I have asked a couple of questions about them myself. … The disparity between "towards" and "toward" corresponds to general usage of the two prepositions, represented in this Ngram. …
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"Expectations of" vs. "expectations for"
There are some questions related to this topic (Usage of "expect to" and "expectation to/of" and "Need of" vs. "need for"), but I haven't found one directly addressing this word combination.
I'm tryin …
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"Struggle with" vs. "struggle against"
For some reason prepositions are presenting me problems lately.
To struggle with and to struggle against basically have identical definitions, meaning to fight with/against, respectively. …
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