⭐️Prepositions with Difficult ⭐️

📕When used predicatively, difficult is usually followed by an infinitive (e.g 🔺an object difficult to obtain, 🔺an explanation difficult to follow), 📙but with certain words there is an alternative construction ➡️ consisting of of followed by a verbal noun:🔺an object difficult of attainment,🔺a task difficult of accomplishment,🔺an aim difficult of achievement,🔺a problem difficult of solution. 📌This construction is possible only when the noun that follows of is implied in the one that precedes difficult. (An object is something that we wish to attain, a task is something that we wish to accomplish, an aim is something that we wish to achieve, and a problem is something that is to be solved.)

@PMPerfect1

⭐️Prepositions with Pain⭐️

📚1- Pain (= agony, anguish.)

📗For pain: because of, or on account of pain. (See also with pain, below.)
🔺I couldn't sleep for pain.

📒In pain: suffering pain.
🔺That child looks as though it is in pain.
🔺For the last week there has been scarcely an hour when I have have not been in pain.
🔺Are you in pain?

📘With pain: because of, or on account of pain.
🔺As the dentist drew the tooth the child screamed with pain.
📌Note: With pain is used after positive verbs, for pain after negative ones, or after semi-negatives such as scarcely, hardly, etc.

📚2- Pain (= penalty).

📘On pain of: This phrase denotes the penalty for non-compliance with a condition, instruction, etc.
🔺He was banished from this country on pain of death.

📒Under pain of: This denotes the situation of the person to whom the penalty applies. ➡️Thus a person who is banished from his country on pain of death, is under pain of death if he returns.

@PMPerfect1

⭐️Prepositions with Plenty⭐️

📕Plenty of time, money, food, opportunities, etc.,📌 but plenty more (not of more).
🔺If you have missed the chance, don't worry; there will be plenty more.
🔺We are rather short of sugar, but we've plenty more milk.

📗In plenty: in abundance. (Not in common use.)
🔺There was food in plenty.

@PMPerfect1

Show the differences in meaning:
1- I don't particularly want to see him now.
2- I particularly don't want to see him now.

1 I would rather not see him if it can be avoided.
2 I am very anxious not to see him.

Show the differences in meaning:
1- I think it wouldn't be wise to mention it to him just now.
2- I think it wouldn't be wise to mention it to him just yet.

1 at this very moment.
2 neither now nor in the immediate future.

Show the differences in meaning:
1- The proposals should prove to be in the interest of the public
2- The proposals should prove to be of interest to the public.

1 for the public benefit
2 that the public will take an interest in

Show the differences in meaning:
1- His friend reproached him for having disclosed the secret.
2- His friend reproached him with having disclosed the secret.

1 he had disclosed the secret, and his friend expressed regret that he done so
2 his friend assumed that he had disclosed the secret, and blamed him for doing so.

Show the differences in meaning:
1- There were no fewer than 10,000 people at the meeting.
2- There were not fewer than 10,000 people at the meeting.