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Anonymous Posted 14 years ago
Grammar

for or to?

for or to?
It's irritating to people to play against him.
It's irritating for people to play against him.
  

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I think both. If you search "irritating for people" and "irritating to people" on google both combinations are used. In the american corpus it shows that: "irritating to" is used a lot more than "for" this could introduce a noun, pronoun or be the start of an infinitive.

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  • I think both.
  • If you search "irritating for people" and "irritating to people" on google both combinations are used.
  • In the american corpus it shows that: "irritating to" is used a lot more than "for" this could introduce a noun, pronoun or be the start of an infinitive.
  • It is irritating to know I am irritating to people.
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I think both. If you search "irritating for people" and "irritating to people" on google both combinations are used.

In the american corpus it shows that:

"irritating to" is used a lot more than "for"

this could introduce a noun, pronoun or be the start of an infinitive.

It is irritating to know I am irritating to people.
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I would drop the "people" and just say: It is irritating to play against him.
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