Abide to VS Abide by
Is abide to a thing? I know for sure abide by is grammatically correct but not sure about abide to
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johnie Is abide to a thing? I know for sure abide by is grammatically correct but not sure about abide to It's very rare and old-fashioned. It's equivalent to "stand" in the sense of "tolerate" (almost always with "cannot").
- johnie Is abide to a thing?
- I know for sure abide by is grammatically correct but not sure about abide to It's very rare and old-fashioned.
- It's equivalent to "stand" in the sense of "tolerate" (almost always with "cannot").
- I can't abide to hear that kind of language.
- ~ I can't stand to hear that kind of language.
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johnieIs abide to a thing? I know for sure abide by is grammatically correct but not sure about abide to
It's very rare and old-fashioned. It's equivalent to "stand" in the sense of "tolerate" (almost always with "cannot").
I can't abide to hear that kind of language.
~ I can't stand to hear that kind of languag
0Occasionally you may see people say things like "abide to the rules" instead of "abide by the rules". There are a reasonable number of Google hits for phrases like this, even from apparently native speakers. To me, this does not seem correct. In such cases you should use "abide by" instead, in my opinion.
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