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Anonymous Posted 16 years ago
Grammar

Provide vs. provide with sth; provide to vs. provide for

A. I provide our clients with useful information.
B. I provide our clients useful information.
C. I provide useful information for our clients.
D. I provide useful information to our clients.

1. Which of the sentences above are correct?
2. If A and B are both possible, what is the difference between "provide" and "provide with" something?
3. If C and D are both possible as well, what is the difference between "provide for" and "provide to"?

Thank you in advance for your assistance.
  

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Anonymous A. I provide our clients with useful information. B.

  • Anonymous A.
  • I provide our clients with useful information.
  • B.
  • I provide our clients useful information.
  • C.
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AnonymousA. I provide our clients with useful information.
B. I provide our clients useful information.
C. I provide useful information for our clients.
D. I provide useful information to our clients.
A and C are correct.

CB
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Thank you, CB, for the answers.

I wonder why "provide to" in D is not correct in my original example. I once read from a newspaper something like the following:

They provide assistance to the homeless.


Do you think it should have read "...provide assistance for..."?
If "...provide assistance to..." is also possible, d
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Hello,

Could someone please help me with the questions on my last post before this? I wonder if "provide to" is also correct. If so, is there any difference from "provide from"? Thank you.
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Hi,

I try to show its intrinsic logic language in them.

A. I provide our clients with useful information. ------

here [with] employed to stress the two things:

1. the clients are provided to be with useful information;

2. and the clients are useful or necessary for doing something;

---it is good

B. I provide our clients useful informat
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A. I provide our clients with useful information. --

here [with] employed to stress the two things:

1. the clients are provided to be with useful information;

2. and the clients are useful or necessary for doing something;

---it is good

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Hi,

There is a misplace

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