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Get the path "to" vs "of" vs "for" a file?
A method to get the path of the file.
Of = that is contextually associated with - compare "The key of the door."
A method to get the path to a file.
to = that is towards; that is in the ...
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Get the path "to" vs "of" vs "for" a file?
If you are asking about the usage or selection of prepositions, I would say that to is always suitable for the context. Under the presupposition or implication that there is only one path for a ...
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Do we ever use "treatment with" instead of "treatment of"?
Do we ever use "treatment with" instead of "treatment of"?
Yes:
Treatment with antibiotics was ineffective.
Treatment of the disease was particularly cruel.
With and of are ...
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Is "[...]by only no state-prison offenses correct[...]?
Follow the semicolons . . .
(a paraphrase) :
I know, based on experience, that many of you are:
trying to get out of debt;
still dying for the coin;
promising to pay tomorrow and dying insolvent ...
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Is "[...]by only no state-prison offenses correct[...]?
As I read it (with much of the verbage removed):
It is very evident what mean and sneaking lives many of you live, for my sight has been whetted by experience; always on the limits, trying to get into ...
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What role does the preposition “with” play in this sentence?
In both examples, with heads a preposition phrase that acts as adjunct (modifier or 'adverbial' if you prefer) in clause structure.
In the first example the adjunct is understood as one of reason, and ...
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Is it correct to say "he led me through a path"?
According to Google‘s English Dictionary (provided by OxfordLanguages) we have the following definition:
Through: moving in one side and out of the other side of (an opening, channel, or location).
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Grammatical error in the expression "what would occur without"
Is Ci essential to the capability to detect objects? What would occur without?
"Without" is a preposition, and it requires an object. It can't be a stranded preposition with "what"...
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With adjective uses of the to-infinitive like 'a place to live in', is the preposition 'in' necessary?
This is, as Lawler notes, a fixed phrase. But it works with other infinitives also: you can say "a place to eat" but not *"a park to eat" or *"I eat the place."
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