*📝COMMON MISTAKES ( 4)*
✏️ *Misused forms* ✏️
*♦️Confidence in*, not to.
✖️Don't say: I have great confidence to you.
✔️Say: I have great confidence in you.
➕Note: In confidence: Let me tell you something in confidence {= as a secret)
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*♦️ Conform to,* not with.
✖️Don't say:'We must conform with the rules.
✔️Say. We must conform to the rules.
➕Note: comply lakes with. We'll comply with your request.
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*♦️ Congratulate on*, not for.
✖️Don't say: I congratulate you for your success.
✔️ Say: I congratulate you on your success.
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*♦️ Consist of*, not from.
✖️Don't say: A year consists from twelve months.
✔️ Say: A year consists of twelve months.
➕Note: Take great care never to use consist in the passive form.
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*♦️Covered with*, not by.
✖️Don't say: The mountains are covered by snow.
✔️ Say: The mountains are covered with/in snow.
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*♦Cure of* not from.
✖️Don't say: The man was cured from his illness.
✔️ Say: The man was cured of his illness.
➕Note:
🔸 The noun cure takes for
🔸There is no cure for that disease
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♦️ *Depend on* or upon, not from
✖️Don't say: It depends from her.
✔️ Say: It depends on (or upon) her.
➕Note :
➖ Rely on or upon :
🔸can't rely on (or upon) him.
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🌀 #Common_Mistakes
✏️ *Misused forms* ✏️
*♦️Confidence in*, not to.
✖️Don't say: I have great confidence to you.
✔️Say: I have great confidence in you.
➕Note: In confidence: Let me tell you something in confidence {= as a secret)
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*♦️ Conform to,* not with.
✖️Don't say:'We must conform with the rules.
✔️Say. We must conform to the rules.
➕Note: comply lakes with. We'll comply with your request.
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*♦️ Congratulate on*, not for.
✖️Don't say: I congratulate you for your success.
✔️ Say: I congratulate you on your success.
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*♦️ Consist of*, not from.
✖️Don't say: A year consists from twelve months.
✔️ Say: A year consists of twelve months.
➕Note: Take great care never to use consist in the passive form.
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*♦️Covered with*, not by.
✖️Don't say: The mountains are covered by snow.
✔️ Say: The mountains are covered with/in snow.
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*♦Cure of* not from.
✖️Don't say: The man was cured from his illness.
✔️ Say: The man was cured of his illness.
➕Note:
🔸 The noun cure takes for
🔸There is no cure for that disease
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♦️ *Depend on* or upon, not from
✖️Don't say: It depends from her.
✔️ Say: It depends on (or upon) her.
➕Note :
➖ Rely on or upon :
🔸can't rely on (or upon) him.
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🆔 @english_union
🌀 #Common_Mistakes
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