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Tamguatlay Posted 5 years ago
Grammar

Requested for

I have been told that, in American English, "requested for" is correct, but it is not correct in British English.

Could someone confirm that "requested for" is correct in American English?

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Google Ngrams Viewer shows these sentences, among others, from American sources: Increases are requested for several parks that have acquired new responsibilites. The plan should also include an explanation of how the additional $11,857,000 requested for Army family housing ... will be applied to each sub-account.

  • Google Ngrams Viewer shows these sentences, among others, from American sources: Increases are requested for several parks that have acquired new responsibilites.
  • The plan should also include an explanation of how the additional $11,857,000 requested for Army family housing ...
  • will be applied to each sub-account.
  • 8 million is requested for technical assistance.
  • When you search among British sources, you get just as many examples of the same kind.
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Google Ngrams Viewer shows these sentences, among others, from American sources:

Increases are requested for several parks that have acquired new responsibilites.
The plan should also include an explanation of how the additional $11,857,000 requested for Army family housing ... will be applied to each sub-account.
An additional $2.8 million is re

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