Business English: A Practice Book by Rose Buhlig

THE PREPOSITION AND THE CONJUNCTION Prepositions IT is important in the study of prepositions to observe that there are certain words that are followed by certain prepositions. To change the preposition is to convey a different meaning from the one that the speaker intended, or to convey no meaning at all. A partial list of such words with their appropriate prepositions follows: accompanied with anything having no life accompanied by anything having life acquit of accuse of adapted to a thing adapted for a course, because of one's nature adapted from an author agree to a plan or proposition agree with a person agree upon something that must be decided angry at a thing angry with a person compare with to bring out similar qualities compare to without analyzing comply with confer on meaning to give to confer with meaning to talk to confide in meaning to put faith in confide to meaning to commit to one's keeping conform to correspond to, with a thing, denoting similarity correspond with meaning to write to different from dependent on a person dependent for a thing independent of disappointed in employed at a certain place or salary employed in a certain kind of business employed by a certain person or company enter upon duties enter at a door followed by influence over, upon expect of participate in profit by remonstrate against a thing remonstrate with a person =Exercise 125= Insert the correct preposition in the following: