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Anonymous Posted 10 years ago
Grammar

Verbs and their prepositions.

I am an English teacher living in Germany. I often correct the English language in scientific papers intended for publication, and very often can't decide which preposition goes with which verb; several options usually sound OK. I am looking for a REALLY good book on the subject. I recently bought the "Cambridge Phrasal Verbs Dictionary", because 6,000 phrasal verbs are supposedly listed. But the very first one I tried to look up wasn't even in it: "an increase in" or "an increase of"? And there are many more. Of course I can't come up with other examples right now, but if anybody knows of a really good reference book, I'd appreciate it.
  

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Anonymous But the very first one I tried to look up wasn't even in it: "an increase in" or "an increase of"? "an increase in/of" is not a phrasal verb.

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  • Anonymous But the very first one I tried to look up wasn't even in it: "an increase in" or "an increase of"?
  • "an increase in/of" is not a phrasal verb.
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AnonymousBut the very first one I tried to look up wasn't even in it: "an increase in" or "an increase of"?
"an increase in/of" is not a phrasal verb.
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Nice question, Ive struggled with this issue before and I can tell you with utmost certainty that the answer is "increase in."
Think of it this way: There was an increase in (the field of/the area of) the amount of pollution.
Im cant think of any example of "increase of" off the top of my head right now...

Maybe learning the difference between change of and change in will clear th
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Jae Heun LimIm cant think of any example of "increase of" off the top of my head right now...
E.g.:

an increase of about 5%
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