When to use “from” or “by”
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Which is the correct usage here?
Shaken by the experience, Tom decided to go home.
or
Shaken from the experience, Tom decided to go home.
What rule do we use to know which preposition to use?
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Which is the correct usage here?
Shaken by the experience, Tom decided to go home.
or
Shaken from the experience, Tom decided to go home.
What rule do we use to know which preposition to use?
prepositions
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Which is the correct usage here?
Shaken by the experience, Tom decided to go home.
or
Shaken from the experience, Tom decided to go home.
What rule do we use to know which preposition to use?
prepositions
asked 3 hours ago
user27343
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Which is the correct usage here?
Shaken by the experience, Tom decided to go home.
or
Shaken from the experience, Tom decided to go home.
What rule do we use to know which preposition to use?
prepositions
prepositions
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There is no rule.
There are sometimes partial rules; but mostly it is a matter of learning what preposition a particular verb, adjective, or noun takes for its indirect objects. That needs to be learnt just as much as the spelling.
In this case, the iWeb corpus has 82 instances of "shaken by the experience" and 7 of "shaken from the experience". So both are used, but "by" is much more common.
answered 3 hours ago
Colin Fine
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The best you could do is invest in a good digital dictionary and make it your BFF. They usually list the preferred prepositions in various situations. The preferences of British and Americans are often different. As a native speaker, I still need mine to look up that quite often. As Colin said, there are no rules.
– Ross Murray
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active
oldest
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up vote
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There is no rule.
There are sometimes partial rules; but mostly it is a matter of learning what preposition a particular verb, adjective, or noun takes for its indirect objects. That needs to be learnt just as much as the spelling.
In this case, the iWeb corpus has 82 instances of "shaken by the experience" and 7 of "shaken from the experience". So both are used, but "by" is much more common.
answered 3 hours ago
Colin Fine
26.8k13851
The best you could do is invest in a good digital dictionary and make it your BFF. They usually list the preferred prepositions in various situations. The preferences of British and Americans are often different. As a native speaker, I still need mine to look up that quite often. As Colin said, there are no rules.
– Ross Murray
1 hour ago
add a comment |
up vote
3
down vote
There is no rule.
There are sometimes partial rules; but mostly it is a matter of learning what preposition a particular verb, adjective, or noun takes for its indirect objects. That needs to be learnt just as much as the spelling.
In this case, the iWeb corpus has 82 instances of "shaken by the experience" and 7 of "shaken from the experience". So both are used, but "by" is much more common.
answered 3 hours ago
Colin Fine
26.8k13851
The best you could do is invest in a good digital dictionary and make it your BFF. They usually list the preferred prepositions in various situations. The preferences of British and Americans are often different. As a native speaker, I still need mine to look up that quite often. As Colin said, there are no rules.
– Ross Murray
1 hour ago
add a comment |
up vote
3
down vote
up vote
3
down vote
There is no rule.
There are sometimes partial rules; but mostly it is a matter of learning what preposition a particular verb, adjective, or noun takes for its indirect objects. That needs to be learnt just as much as the spelling.
In this case, the iWeb corpus has 82 instances of "shaken by the experience" and 7 of "shaken from the experience". So both are used, but "by" is much more common.
answered 3 hours ago
Colin Fine
26.8k13851
There is no rule.
There are sometimes partial rules; but mostly it is a matter of learning what preposition a particular verb, adjective, or noun takes for its indirect objects. That needs to be learnt just as much as the spelling.
In this case, the iWeb corpus has 82 instances of "shaken by the experience" and 7 of "shaken from the experience". So both are used, but "by" is much more common.
answered 3 hours ago
Colin Fine
26.8k13851
answered 3 hours ago
Colin Fine
26.8k13851
answered 3 hours ago
Colin Fine
26.8k13851
answered 3 hours ago
Colin Fine
26.8k13851
26.8k13851
The best you could do is invest in a good digital dictionary and make it your BFF. They usually list the preferred prepositions in various situations. The preferences of British and Americans are often different. As a native speaker, I still need mine to look up that quite often. As Colin said, there are no rules.
– Ross Murray
1 hour ago
add a comment |
The best you could do is invest in a good digital dictionary and make it your BFF. They usually list the preferred prepositions in various situations. The preferences of British and Americans are often different. As a native speaker, I still need mine to look up that quite often. As Colin said, there are no rules.
– Ross Murray
1 hour ago
The best you could do is invest in a good digital dictionary and make it your BFF. They usually list the preferred prepositions in various situations. The preferences of British and Americans are often different. As a native speaker, I still need mine to look up that quite often. As Colin said, there are no rules.
– Ross Murray
1 hour ago
The best you could do is invest in a good digital dictionary and make it your BFF. They usually list the preferred prepositions in various situations. The preferences of British and Americans are often different. As a native speaker, I still need mine to look up that quite often. As Colin said, there are no rules.
– Ross Murray
1 hour ago
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