When to use “from” or “by”
Which is the correct usage here?
Shaken by the experience, Tom decided to go home.
or
Shaken from the experience, Tom decided to go home.
What rule do we use to know which preposition to use?
prepositions
asked Dec 9 at 23:28
user27343
807
add a comment |
Which is the correct usage here?
Shaken by the experience, Tom decided to go home.
or
Shaken from the experience, Tom decided to go home.
What rule do we use to know which preposition to use?
prepositions
asked Dec 9 at 23:28
user27343
807
add a comment |
Which is the correct usage here?
Shaken by the experience, Tom decided to go home.
or
Shaken from the experience, Tom decided to go home.
What rule do we use to know which preposition to use?
prepositions
asked Dec 9 at 23:28
user27343
807
Which is the correct usage here?
Shaken by the experience, Tom decided to go home.
or
Shaken from the experience, Tom decided to go home.
What rule do we use to know which preposition to use?
prepositions
prepositions
asked Dec 9 at 23:28
user27343
807
asked Dec 9 at 23:28
user27343
807
asked Dec 9 at 23:28
user27343
807
asked Dec 9 at 23:28
user27343
807
asked Dec 9 at 23:28
user27343
807
807
add a comment |
add a comment |
1 Answer
1
active
oldest
votes
There is no rule.
There are sometimes partial rules; but mostly it is a matter of learning what preposition a particular verb, adjective, or noun takes for its indirect objects. That needs to be learnt just as much as the spelling.
In this case, the iWeb corpus has 82 instances of "shaken by the experience" and 7 of "shaken from the experience". So both are used, but "by" is much more common.
answered Dec 9 at 23:44
Colin Fine
27.9k24054
The best you could do is invest in a good digital dictionary and make it your BFF. They usually list the preferred prepositions in various situations. The preferences of British and Americans are often different. As a native speaker, I still need mine to look up that quite often. As Colin said, there are no rules.
– Ross Murray
Dec 10 at 1:30
I'm not sure these are perfect synonyms. To me, "by" feels like it's emphasizing the role of the experience, and "from" makes the experience more distant. Not sure that raw counting will help in that case, and the difference may be too subtle for a dictionary...
– Paul
Dec 10 at 3:09
I never of iWeb corpus. I'll definitely be using it from now on! Thanks.
– user27343
Dec 10 at 4:26
1
@Paul: I agree, and started writing a message to that effect, but I could not get a clear enough hold on the difference, and gave up. I actually think that "by" is a complement of "shaken", but "from" is an adjunct (syntactically less tightly bound).
– Colin Fine
Dec 10 at 10:33
add a comment |
Your Answer
StackExchange.ready(function() {
var channelOptions = {
tags: "".split(" "),
id: "481"
};
initTagRenderer("".split(" "), "".split(" "), channelOptions);
StackExchange.using("externalEditor", function() {
// Have to fire editor after snippets, if snippets enabled
if (StackExchange.settings.snippets.snippetsEnabled) {
StackExchange.using("snippets", function() {
createEditor();
});
}
else {
createEditor();
}
});
function createEditor() {
StackExchange.prepareEditor({
heartbeatType: 'answer',
autoActivateHeartbeat: false,
convertImagesToLinks: false,
noModals: true,
showLowRepImageUploadWarning: true,
reputationToPostImages: null,
bindNavPrevention: true,
postfix: "",
imageUploader: {
brandingHtml: "Powered by u003ca class="icon-imgur-white" href="https://imgur.com/"u003eu003c/au003e",
contentPolicyHtml: "User contributions licensed under u003ca href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/"u003ecc by-sa 3.0 with attribution requiredu003c/au003e u003ca href="https://stackoverflow.com/legal/content-policy"u003e(content policy)u003c/au003e",
allowUrls: true
},
noCode: true, onDemand: true,
discardSelector: ".discard-answer"
,immediatelyShowMarkdownHelp:true
});
}
});
Sign up or log in
StackExchange.ready(function () {
StackExchange.helpers.onClickDraftSave('#login-link');
});
Sign up using Google
Sign up using Facebook
Sign up using Email and Password
Post as a guest
Required, but never shown
StackExchange.ready(
function () {
StackExchange.openid.initPostLogin('.new-post-login', 'https%3a%2f%2fell.stackexchange.com%2fquestions%2f188050%2fwhen-to-use-from-or-by%23new-answer', 'question_page');
}
);
Post as a guest
Required, but never shown
1 Answer
1
active
oldest
votes
1 Answer
1
active
oldest
votes
active
oldest
votes
active
oldest
votes
There is no rule.
There are sometimes partial rules; but mostly it is a matter of learning what preposition a particular verb, adjective, or noun takes for its indirect objects. That needs to be learnt just as much as the spelling.
In this case, the iWeb corpus has 82 instances of "shaken by the experience" and 7 of "shaken from the experience". So both are used, but "by" is much more common.
answered Dec 9 at 23:44
Colin Fine
27.9k24054
The best you could do is invest in a good digital dictionary and make it your BFF. They usually list the preferred prepositions in various situations. The preferences of British and Americans are often different. As a native speaker, I still need mine to look up that quite often. As Colin said, there are no rules.
– Ross Murray
Dec 10 at 1:30
I'm not sure these are perfect synonyms. To me, "by" feels like it's emphasizing the role of the experience, and "from" makes the experience more distant. Not sure that raw counting will help in that case, and the difference may be too subtle for a dictionary...
– Paul
Dec 10 at 3:09
I never of iWeb corpus. I'll definitely be using it from now on! Thanks.
– user27343
Dec 10 at 4:26
1
@Paul: I agree, and started writing a message to that effect, but I could not get a clear enough hold on the difference, and gave up. I actually think that "by" is a complement of "shaken", but "from" is an adjunct (syntactically less tightly bound).
– Colin Fine
Dec 10 at 10:33
add a comment |
There is no rule.
There are sometimes partial rules; but mostly it is a matter of learning what preposition a particular verb, adjective, or noun takes for its indirect objects. That needs to be learnt just as much as the spelling.
In this case, the iWeb corpus has 82 instances of "shaken by the experience" and 7 of "shaken from the experience". So both are used, but "by" is much more common.
answered Dec 9 at 23:44
Colin Fine
27.9k24054
The best you could do is invest in a good digital dictionary and make it your BFF. They usually list the preferred prepositions in various situations. The preferences of British and Americans are often different. As a native speaker, I still need mine to look up that quite often. As Colin said, there are no rules.
– Ross Murray
Dec 10 at 1:30
I'm not sure these are perfect synonyms. To me, "by" feels like it's emphasizing the role of the experience, and "from" makes the experience more distant. Not sure that raw counting will help in that case, and the difference may be too subtle for a dictionary...
– Paul
Dec 10 at 3:09
I never of iWeb corpus. I'll definitely be using it from now on! Thanks.
– user27343
Dec 10 at 4:26
1
@Paul: I agree, and started writing a message to that effect, but I could not get a clear enough hold on the difference, and gave up. I actually think that "by" is a complement of "shaken", but "from" is an adjunct (syntactically less tightly bound).
– Colin Fine
Dec 10 at 10:33
add a comment |
There is no rule.
There are sometimes partial rules; but mostly it is a matter of learning what preposition a particular verb, adjective, or noun takes for its indirect objects. That needs to be learnt just as much as the spelling.
In this case, the iWeb corpus has 82 instances of "shaken by the experience" and 7 of "shaken from the experience". So both are used, but "by" is much more common.
answered Dec 9 at 23:44
Colin Fine
27.9k24054
There is no rule.
There are sometimes partial rules; but mostly it is a matter of learning what preposition a particular verb, adjective, or noun takes for its indirect objects. That needs to be learnt just as much as the spelling.
In this case, the iWeb corpus has 82 instances of "shaken by the experience" and 7 of "shaken from the experience". So both are used, but "by" is much more common.
answered Dec 9 at 23:44
Colin Fine
27.9k24054
answered Dec 9 at 23:44
Colin Fine
27.9k24054
answered Dec 9 at 23:44
Colin Fine
27.9k24054
answered Dec 9 at 23:44
Colin Fine
27.9k24054
27.9k24054
The best you could do is invest in a good digital dictionary and make it your BFF. They usually list the preferred prepositions in various situations. The preferences of British and Americans are often different. As a native speaker, I still need mine to look up that quite often. As Colin said, there are no rules.
– Ross Murray
Dec 10 at 1:30
I'm not sure these are perfect synonyms. To me, "by" feels like it's emphasizing the role of the experience, and "from" makes the experience more distant. Not sure that raw counting will help in that case, and the difference may be too subtle for a dictionary...
– Paul
Dec 10 at 3:09
I never of iWeb corpus. I'll definitely be using it from now on! Thanks.
– user27343
Dec 10 at 4:26
1
@Paul: I agree, and started writing a message to that effect, but I could not get a clear enough hold on the difference, and gave up. I actually think that "by" is a complement of "shaken", but "from" is an adjunct (syntactically less tightly bound).
– Colin Fine
Dec 10 at 10:33
add a comment |
The best you could do is invest in a good digital dictionary and make it your BFF. They usually list the preferred prepositions in various situations. The preferences of British and Americans are often different. As a native speaker, I still need mine to look up that quite often. As Colin said, there are no rules.
– Ross Murray
Dec 10 at 1:30
I'm not sure these are perfect synonyms. To me, "by" feels like it's emphasizing the role of the experience, and "from" makes the experience more distant. Not sure that raw counting will help in that case, and the difference may be too subtle for a dictionary...
– Paul
Dec 10 at 3:09
I never of iWeb corpus. I'll definitely be using it from now on! Thanks.
– user27343
Dec 10 at 4:26
1
@Paul: I agree, and started writing a message to that effect, but I could not get a clear enough hold on the difference, and gave up. I actually think that "by" is a complement of "shaken", but "from" is an adjunct (syntactically less tightly bound).
– Colin Fine
Dec 10 at 10:33
The best you could do is invest in a good digital dictionary and make it your BFF. They usually list the preferred prepositions in various situations. The preferences of British and Americans are often different. As a native speaker, I still need mine to look up that quite often. As Colin said, there are no rules.
– Ross Murray
Dec 10 at 1:30
The best you could do is invest in a good digital dictionary and make it your BFF. They usually list the preferred prepositions in various situations. The preferences of British and Americans are often different. As a native speaker, I still need mine to look up that quite often. As Colin said, there are no rules.
– Ross Murray
Dec 10 at 1:30
I'm not sure these are perfect synonyms. To me, "by" feels like it's emphasizing the role of the experience, and "from" makes the experience more distant. Not sure that raw counting will help in that case, and the difference may be too subtle for a dictionary...
– Paul
Dec 10 at 3:09
I'm not sure these are perfect synonyms. To me, "by" feels like it's emphasizing the role of the experience, and "from" makes the experience more distant. Not sure that raw counting will help in that case, and the difference may be too subtle for a dictionary...
– Paul
Dec 10 at 3:09
I never of iWeb corpus. I'll definitely be using it from now on! Thanks.
– user27343
Dec 10 at 4:26
I never of iWeb corpus. I'll definitely be using it from now on! Thanks.
– user27343
Dec 10 at 4:26
1
1
@Paul: I agree, and started writing a message to that effect, but I could not get a clear enough hold on the difference, and gave up. I actually think that "by" is a complement of "shaken", but "from" is an adjunct (syntactically less tightly bound).
– Colin Fine
Dec 10 at 10:33
@Paul: I agree, and started writing a message to that effect, but I could not get a clear enough hold on the difference, and gave up. I actually think that "by" is a complement of "shaken", but "from" is an adjunct (syntactically less tightly bound).
– Colin Fine
Dec 10 at 10:33
add a comment |
Thanks for contributing an answer to English Language Learners Stack Exchange!
- Please be sure to answer the question. Provide details and share your research!
But avoid …
- Asking for help, clarification, or responding to other answers.
- Making statements based on opinion; back them up with references or personal experience.
To learn more, see our tips on writing great answers.
Some of your past answers have not been well-received, and you're in danger of being blocked from answering.
Please pay close attention to the following guidance:
- Please be sure to answer the question. Provide details and share your research!
But avoid …
- Asking for help, clarification, or responding to other answers.
- Making statements based on opinion; back them up with references or personal experience.
To learn more, see our tips on writing great answers.
Sign up or log in
StackExchange.ready(function () {
StackExchange.helpers.onClickDraftSave('#login-link');
});
Sign up using Google
Sign up using Facebook
Sign up using Email and Password
Post as a guest
Required, but never shown
StackExchange.ready(
function () {
StackExchange.openid.initPostLogin('.new-post-login', 'https%3a%2f%2fell.stackexchange.com%2fquestions%2f188050%2fwhen-to-use-from-or-by%23new-answer', 'question_page');
}
);
Post as a guest
Required, but never shown
Sign up or log in
StackExchange.ready(function () {
StackExchange.helpers.onClickDraftSave('#login-link');
});
Sign up using Google
Sign up using Facebook
Sign up using Email and Password
Post as a guest
Required, but never shown
Sign up or log in
StackExchange.ready(function () {
StackExchange.helpers.onClickDraftSave('#login-link');
});
Sign up using Google
Sign up using Facebook
Sign up using Email and Password
Post as a guest
Required, but never shown
Sign up or log in
StackExchange.ready(function () {
StackExchange.helpers.onClickDraftSave('#login-link');
});
Sign up using Google
Sign up using Facebook
Sign up using Email and Password
Sign up using Google
Sign up using Facebook
Sign up using Email and Password
Post as a guest
Required, but never shown
Required, but never shown
Required, but never shown
Required, but never shown
Required, but never shown
Required, but never shown
Required, but never shown
Required, but never shown
Required, but never shown
