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Moon7296 Posted 12 years ago
Vocabulary
preposition
1. She had a deep dislike for Robert's wife.
2. She had a deep dislike of Robert's wife.
3. Prejudice is an unreasonable dislike of or preference for someone or something.
4. Prejudice is an unreasonable dislike (for) or preference for someone or something.
Q) Regarding the prepositions, are all the sentences technically correct?
2. She had a deep dislike of Robert's wife.
3. Prejudice is an unreasonable dislike of or preference for someone or something.
4. Prejudice is an unreasonable dislike (for) or preference for someone or something.
Q) Regarding the prepositions, are all the sentences technically correct?
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moon7296 Q) Regarding the prepositions, are all the sentences technically correct? Yes. They're all fine.
- moon7296 Q) Regarding the prepositions, are all the sentences technically correct?
- Yes.
- They're all fine.
- CJ
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moon7296Q) Regarding the prepositions, are all the sentences technically correct?Yes. They're all fine.
CJ
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Woops... Does judging correctness depend on people from different countries? I say this because a British person said the preposition "of" for the noun "dislike" and "for" for "preference" are only the correct options for the sentence No.3.
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moon7296Does judging correctness depend on people from different countries?I don't know. I thought "dislike of/for" was the same in both varieties of English. There are 3 million examples of "a dislike of" on Google.
CJ
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Ok thank you^^
then what about prefer?
Q) Is "for" only the preposition that makes natural in the context? not other prepositions like "to" or "about" accepted?
Q2) Can #4 no problem at all? Prejudice is an unreasonable dislike or preference for someone or something.
I ask this because when I google with some key words, the result shows only #3 and not #4.
then what about prefer?
Q) Is "for" only the preposition that makes natural in the context? not other prepositions like "to" or "about" accepted?
Q2) Can #4 no problem at all? Prejudice is an unreasonable dislike or preference for someone or something.
I ask this because when I google with some key words, the result shows only #3 and not #4.
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moon7296what about prefer?Q) Is "for" only the preposition that makes natural in the context? not other prepositions like "to" or "about" accepted?Now you're asking about prefer, a verb. The verb does not take a preposition except after the direct object.
I prefer honey [to / over] sugar.
And prefer may al
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