However, it is common to find examples in which this verb is not used properly, according to this distinction: “He is the director of the company in charge of providing raw materials and chemical auxiliaries to industries”, “The prime minister provided the documents to the press” or “The laboratory could stop supplying vaccines to the European Union in the second semester”.
According to him student’s dictionary, when the verb provide means ‘provide (to someone or something) a necessary thing’, It is built with a complement preceded by the preposition of, as illustrated in the example «The ministry will provide books to libraries». Nevertheless, in the sense of ‘prepare (what is necessary) for something’, the complement goes without prepositionas in “He provided the food for the excursion.” The error is probably due to the fact that the verbs provide Y supplywhich are the senses of provide ofare built without a preposition.
In this way, in the initial examples, in which the meaning is ‘provide’, the appropriate thing would have been to write «He is the director of the company in charge of supplying raw materials and chemical auxiliaries to industries», «The prime minister provided the documents to the press” and “The laboratory could stop supplying vaccines to the European Union in the second semester”.
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