2017年3月29日 · The hospital provides care for thousands of sick children. Be Careful! Don't use any preposition except for in sentences like these. Don't say, for example 'The animals provide food to their young'. If you provide for someone, you regularly give them the things they need, such as money, food, or clothing.

2019年3月28日 · This provides food for thought. Parents provide for their children. To provide for=to sustain or support physically or financially or in some other way that does not just mean to give or supply. whereas: provide x to y just means: supply or give x to y. There is also the idea of make provision for [arrange for]: The will provided for their upkeep.

We add the information the study provides us with to our article. In your original sentence, the prepositional phrase "with information" didn't modify any words. In this new sentence, "with information" modifies "us." You could also use the second sentence, which is equally correct.

Provide can be either transitive or intransitive. All of your sentences above appear correct (as provide can take both a direct and an indirect object, and the "with" may be implied, as in your 2nd sentence).

To my ear "We recommend that he provide an appropriate response" sounds better than "provides" what is this tense/construct called and which is right ?

So I'd argue that when you similarly transform "provide something (for somebody)" the "with" is important. In the OP's example, the 'something' is a phrase where the meaning is clear. But if you change the sentence to "It provides shops customers" it becomes unclear …

2014年11月26日 · The grammar aspect has been sufficiently addressed by John Lawler in the comments. There is no difference. One is from a relative clause you have provided help to us and the other is from a relative clause you have provided us help.

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2015年5月16日 · There should be a word for a person who provides a service (such as cleaning your house, fixing your car, teaching you a new language, taking care of your pets, etc.) which is the context where I need this word. A sample sentence: If two persons (working for the same company) provide a service for me at home, then there are two _____.

2015年2月18日 · “It seems that the field provides no details of either the ‘Operation Errors’ or the ‘Reject causes’ (that are) listed in the report.” Note that this version only has a single negative (‘no’), rather than the three in the original.