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Onizo Posted 10 years ago
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1. How those factors are defined and monitored are "of" crucial interest.
2. How those factors are defined and monitored are crucial interest to me.

Is the second sentence correct? Or does it need 'of'?
  

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onizoIs the second sentence correct? Or does it need 'of'?
It needs "of."
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I think it should be:

How those factors are defined and monitored is of crucial interest.
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Thank you.

Then what does this 'of' mean here?
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"of interest" is a set idiomatic phrase. Similar phrases are "of concern" and "of importance".
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