◄ Prepositions 3 (verb + preposition) | #1 | #2 | #3 | #4 | #5 | #6 | #7 | #8 |

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[Prepositions 3 (verb + preposition) #8]

Task (1): Search for remind * about and remind * of in the corpus, and give an example of each.
Task (2): Do the two expressions differ in meaning and use?
Task (3): Search for protect * from and protect * against, and give an example of each.
Task (4): Do the two expressions differ in meaning?



Suggested answer:
(1) Examples of the searches remind * about and remind * of:
He wanted to remind you about your ten o'clock press conference...
'You know, you're beginning to remind me of Janice.'

(2) Yes, the two expressions differ in meaning; while "remind someone about" has the meaning of telling someone not to forget, "remind someone of" has the meaning of causing someone to think of (something/someone) because of a resemblance.

Syntactically, however, the two expressions behave similarly by allowing a pronoun between the verb and preposition.

(3) Examples of protect * from and protect * against:
... "who will protect us from the anger of our neglected gods and ancestors?"
... and protect him against the dangers which might be inherent in masculine assertion...

(4) No, the two expressions do not seem to differ in meaning. They also follow similar syntactic patterns. However, the expression protect * from is more than six times more common in the corpus than protect * against.

Read about verb + preposition combinations here
Terminology: preposition

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