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Hans51 Posted 12 years ago
Grammar
'Alert someone of [to] B'
Alert
to make someone realize something important or dangerous
alert somebody to something
campaigns to alert the public to the dangers of HIV
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According to the explanation of the word alert, 'alert someone to B' is a fine phrase to use but I have seen 'alert someone of B' and then both ones are fine to use and is there a meaning difference between the two ways?
Applications alert users of suspicious phone numbers and texts.
Thank you so much in advance.
to make someone realize something important or dangerous
alert somebody to something
campaigns to alert the public to the dangers of HIV
- Longman -
According to the explanation of the word alert, 'alert someone to B' is a fine phrase to use but I have seen 'alert someone of B' and then both ones are fine to use and is there a meaning difference between the two ways?
Applications alert users of suspicious phone numbers and texts.
Thank you so much in advance.
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Hans51 'alert someone to B' is a fine phrase to use but I have seen 'alert someone of B' and then both ones are fine to use and is there a meaning difference between the two ways? There is no difference in meaning. To my ear, the 'of' form is strange and, if acceptable, is a weaker expression.
- Hans51 'alert someone to B' is a fine phrase to use but I have seen 'alert someone of B' and then both ones are fine to use and is there a meaning difference between the two ways?
- There is no difference in meaning.
- To my ear, the 'of' form is strange and, if acceptable, is a weaker expression.
- COCA gives me 431 hits for 'alert * to' but only 108 instances of 'alert * of'—and many of these represent unrelated structures ('alert because of'', 'alert sense of', 'alert use of', etc)
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Hans51 'alert someone to B' is a fine phrase to use but I have seen 'alert someone of B' and then both ones are fine to use and is there a meaning difference between the two ways?There is no difference in meaning. To my ear, the 'of' form is strange and, if acceptable, is a weaker expression.
COCA gives me 431 hits for 'alert * to' but only 108 inst
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