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Ann225 Posted 6 years ago
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Explanation of or for why

Hi,

Which one is correct?

“There has to be a perfectly reasonable explanation of/ for why he’s been keeping away from social media.”

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Ann225“There has to be a perfectly reasonable explanation why he’s been keeping away from social media.”

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Purely in terms of their frequency in published works, the Google Ngram Viewer says these occur as shown in the list below, most frequent first:

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