tenses

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 ?

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"provide" vs. "provide with"

The verb provide has two different subcategorisation frames: provide something [ to somebody] provide somebody with something In the first, the material provided is the object, in the second the recipient

terminology

6 When writing a CV or something similar, one often provides contact information to a person, who may be contacted for references about oneself (e.g. about work attitude or other

What is "a room a company provides for eating food" called?

In the UK I have heard this referred to almost exclusively as the "canteen". The dictionary definition for canteen states: "a restaurant provided by an organization such as a college, factory, or

“provide X to someone” vs “provide X for someone”

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

prepositions

Does provide need the preposition with, or is it truly ditransitive? Kindly provide us with your best quotation Kindly provide us your best quotation. He provided directions. He provided...

What is the etymology of the sense of ''key'' in ''key a surface

The Online Etymological Dictionary provides a clue to the origin of the usage: [key] The meaning "to scratch (a car''s paint job) with a metal key" is recorded by 1986. But I suspect the usage

Usage of the verb "provide"

There is a British/American difference here. The verb provide takes two objects, and they can go in either order. The second one usually takes a preposition, and the first one never does. The

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