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Quaerereverum Posted 14 years ago
Vocabulary
Deprive of or from
Hello,
Which preposition is correct?
They redirect the rivers which fed the sea.So, it deprived the sea of/ from fresh water which kept its salinity in balance.
Thank you for your response.
Which preposition is correct?
They redirect the rivers which fed the sea.So, it deprived the sea of/ from fresh water which kept its salinity in balance.
Thank you for your response.
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They redirected the rivers which fed the sea. So, it deprived the sea of fresh water which kept its salinity in balance.
- They redirected the rivers which fed the sea.
- So, it deprived the sea of fresh water which kept its salinity in balance.
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They redirected the rivers which fed the sea. So, it deprived the sea of fresh water which kept its salinity in balance.
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Thank you Mentee. It is interesting to know that in the same forum under the same tread ''deprived of or from?'' the writer believed that depending on situation we can use of or '' from''. But according to the Longman dictionary ''deprive of '' is correct.
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