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21 January
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Question about English (US)
What's the difference between "from" and "of" in the following sentences? Which is rigth and which is wrong? Do you know the correct answer?:
- I get angry when they borrow money from me.
Or:
- I get angry when they borrow money of me.
What's the difference between "from" and "of" in the following sentences? Which is rigth and which is wrong? Do you know the correct answer?:
- I get angry when they borrow money from me.
Or:
- I get angry when they borrow money of me.
- I get angry when they borrow money from me.
Or:
- I get angry when they borrow money of me.
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- English (US)
I get angry when they borrow money from me.
- English (US)
"I get angry when they borrow money from me."
the of in the second sentence makes it so the money they are borrowing is made of you rather than your money
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- Spanish (Mexico)
@Bakuhan You mean as if I had made it? In the second sentence, right?
- English (US)
@sitrajesus no. 'money of me' would be money made out of you or with you on it
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- Spanish (Mexico)
@Bakuhan Therefore. I refer to the second sentence.
- English (US)
@sitrajesus I'm confused. What are you asking?
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- Spanish (Mexico)
@Bakuhan What about the second sentence: I get angry when they borrow money of me.
You said:
the of in the second sentence makes it so the money they are borrowing is made of you rather than your money
I said:
You mean as if I had made it? In the second sentence, right?
You said:
the of in the second sentence makes it so the money they are borrowing is made of you rather than your money
I said:
You mean as if I had made it? In the second sentence, right?
- English (US)
@sitrajesus Hey, he meant to say that 'of' would sound like, as if you were used in the process to make, produce this money... Since you're not a component used to make/produce the money and your face isn't printed out in it... It sounds weird to hear that the money were borrowed of you.. Also, "from" here sounds good because the sentence reveals the origin of that money , FROM who it comes..
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