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EXAMPLE
Оглавлениеwrong: This is the moment I’ve been waiting for.
right: This is the moment for which I’ve been waiting.
Occasionally it is difficult to choose the correct preposition since several are acceptable in spoken language. Here is a guide to the most commonly mistaken prepositions:
| afflict | with |
| agree | to (something) |
| agree | with (somebody) |
| complain | of |
| different | from (US than) |
| disappointed | in (something) |
| disappointed | with (somebody) |
| disgusted | at/by (something) |
| disgusted | with (somebody) |
| dislike | for |
| divide | amoung (many) |
| divide | between (two) |
| equal | to |
| guilty | of |
| opposite | to |
| prevail | on |
| protest | against |
| similar | to |
| tired | of (something) |
| tired | with (action) |
| thirst | for |
| vexed | at (something) |
| vexed | with (somebody) |
Conjunctions are the little words that join a word with another part of the sentence: and, but, or.
It is unusual, though not impossible, to start a sentence with ‘and’, but this should only be the case when you want to emphasise the fact that you are doing so.
