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Anonymous Posted 18 years ago
Grammar
Use of to/from
I was told this is correct:
You are forbidden to...
You are prohibited from...
I was told this is incorrect:
You are forbidden from...
You are prohibited to...
To me, I can interchange to/from in the above cases and it still sounds right. Can someone please explain to me why only one of them is correct?
You are forbidden to...
You are prohibited from...
I was told this is incorrect:
You are forbidden from...
You are prohibited to...
To me, I can interchange to/from in the above cases and it still sounds right. Can someone please explain to me why only one of them is correct?
Top answer
Aside from simply telling you that that is the way they collocate: pro ('forward') + hibit ('hold') for ('strongly') + bid ('ask') .
- Aside from simply telling you that that is the way they collocate: pro ('forward') + hibit ('hold') for ('strongly') + bid ('ask') .
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Aside from simply telling you that that is the way they collocate:
pro ('forward') + hibit ('hold')
for ('strongly') + bid ('ask')
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Aside from simply telling you that that is the way they collocate:
pro ('forward') + hibit ('hold')
for ('strongly') + bid ('ask')
.
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AnonymousI can interchange to/from in the above cases and it still sounds right.When learning a new language, you can't always trust your intuition about what sounds right. There are never any answers to why things are correct in language. Through the accidents of history certain thoughts come to be expressed in certain ways, and that becomes the right way
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