expected of or expected from?
By CrimsonSpork
@Manasha (2933)
Pondicherry, India
June 18, 2021 4:49am CST
When I go through an article recently,I come across some sentences with the words expected of and expected from. I feel somewhat tough to distinguish the difference. When we say expected from it denotes the meaning of expecting something from someone. When we say expected of, what actually it means. Yu shall clear it if you have some ideas about it.
some sentences may give clarification
major benefits are expected from this mannequin model
major benefits are expected of this model
do we have a difference in the above sentences?
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@porwest (112876)
• United States
18 Jun 21
I think your context was right. But there are many contexts of course than change what word we ultimately should use.
The best way to think of it is how we use of and from when there are other words in between. For example, I expected a gift from her as opposed to I expected of her to bring a gift.
I expected from my employer to offer me a raise. It was the expectation of my employer to offer me a raise.
There can be many examples.
But even some of these examples are a bit clunky. We might be more inclined to use "that" in lieu of "of" or "from." I expected that she would bring a gift. I expected that my employer would offer a me a raise. It was expected that my employer would offer me a raise.
And so on and so forth.
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