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Anonymous Posted 16 years ago
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Vigilant to or vigilant of

Vox pop.

Which of the following is correct?

We will be looking to include changes over the forthcoming releases of your software, whilst remaining vigilant of the impact of a post election Budget and any further changes that may bring.



We will be looking to include changes over the forthcoming releases of your software, whilst remaining vigilant to the impact of a post election Budget and any further changes that may bring.
  

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Hi, Which of the following is correct? We will be looking to include changes over the forthcoming releases of your software, whilst remaining vigilant of the impact of a post election Budget and any further changes that may bring. We will be looking to include changes over the forthcoming releases of your software, whilst remaining vigilant to the impact of a post election Budget and any further changes that may bring.

— Clive

  • Hi, Which of the following is correct?
  • We will be looking to include changes over the forthcoming releases of your software, whilst remaining vigilant of the impact of a post election Budget and any further changes that may bring.
  • We will be looking to include changes over the forthcoming releases of your software, whilst remaining vigilant to the impact of a post election Budget and any further changes that may bring.
  • 'Of' sounds odd to me.
  • 'To' sounds acceptable.
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Hi,

Which of the following is correct?

We will be looking to include changes over the forthcoming releases of your software, whilst remaining vigilant of the impact of a post election Budget and any further changes that may bring.

We will be looking to include changes over the forthcoming releases of your software, whilst remaining vigilant to the impac
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The last guy says 'of' sounds odd, but I think 'about' sounds odd... I would use 'of'.

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anonymousWhich of the following is correct?

I wouldn't say that either choice of preposition is wrong, but according to more than one corpus, the more frequently used preposition after "vigilant" is "about".

CJ

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