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Writers may also choose a preposition for sound or style.",{"name":120,"@type":111,"acceptedAnswer":121},"What does the reference list provide?",{"text":122,"@type":114},"It pairs individual words with the prepositions most often associated with them, showing typical combinations that commonly give writers 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A;you force A into B but enforce B onA;finally,A implies B,so you infer Bfrom A.And that's only the begin-ning of it.  \n450 Words and the prepositions construed with them.Words generally havecertain prepositions associated with them,and these prepositions showthe relationships with other words.It's often a matter of idiom.The listbelow hardly exhausts the possible combinations,but it contains the pairings that most often give writers trouble.For any such words,Google'sngrams can be invaluable.  \naberration(n.):from,of  \nabhorrence(n.):of  \nabhorrent(adj.):to  \nabide(vb.):with [stay],by[obey]  \nabound(vb.):in,with  \nabsolve(vb.):from[guilt],of  \n[obligation]  \nabsolved(adj.):from,of,byabstain(wb.):fromabut(vb.):on,againstaccede(vb.):to  \naccommodate(vb.):by,for,in,withto  \naccompanied(vb.):to,by,[not with  \nBryan A.Garner,The Chicago Guide to Grammar,Usage,and Punctuation.Chicago:The University of Chicago Press,2016.  \n# Prepositional Idioms      \n\nShifts in idiom.While prepositional idioms often give nonnative speak-ers of English nightmares,even native speakers of English often need todouble-check them.Often the language undergoes some shifting.Theremay be a difference between traditional literary usage(oblivious of)andprevailing contemporary usage(oblivious to).Sometimes the writer maychoose one or the other preposition for reasons of euphony.(Is it better,in a given context,to ruminate on,about,or over a specified problem?)Sometimes,too,the denotative and connotative differences can be strik-ing:it's one thing to be smitten with another and quite a different thing tobe smitten by another.  \naccompany(vb.):to,by,withaccord(n.):with,between,over,about  \naccord(vb.):in,to,with  \naccordance(n.):with  \naccount(n.):of,for,to,about,with  \naccount(vb.):to [a person],for[a  \nthing or a person]accountable(adj.):to,foraccuse(vb.):ofacquainted(adj.):with  \nacquiesce(vb.):in,to [preferably notwith]acquit(vb.):of  \nWord Usage  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