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Nhật Bình Posted 6 years ago
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No one else _____ my acquaintance is as beautiful as me.A. ofB. toC. withD. afterWhy is the answer A? Could you explain to me?
  

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No one else of my acquaintance is as beautiful as me. This expression 'of my acquaintance' is very old-fashioned, and rarely used in modern English. It means "No one else I know is as beautiful as me".

  • No one else of my acquaintance is as beautiful as me.
  • This expression 'of my acquaintance' is very old-fashioned, and rarely used in modern English.
  • It means "No one else I know is as beautiful as me".
  • You could think of the preposition 'of' here as meaning 'belonging (to my acquaintance)'.
  • The other two prepositions just don't make sense.
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No one else of my acquaintance is as beautiful as me. This expression 'of my acquaintance' is very old-fashioned, and rarely used in modern English. It means "No one else I know is as beautiful as me". You could think of the preposition 'of' here as meaning 'belonging (to my acquaintance)'.


The other two prepositions just don't make sense.

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Nh?t Bìnhwhy is the answer A? Could you explain to me?

'of one's acquaintance' is a formal idiomatic phrase. It means 'of' the people you know, have met, or who are in your circle.

Here is a list of sentences with that idiom (from ldoceonline):

• Few hackers of my acquaintance smoke.

• These colonies are millstones around our necks, as a n

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