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Originally Posted by balakrishnanijk  Dear Harry and Teia
Your sentences are all right but you don't seem to have got the message. My question is whether the preposition "from" can be used instead of "of" to denote the same idea because in the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English one comes across the following sentences:
1.The animals died of starvation in the snow.
2.My grandfather died from a heart attack.
Doesn't it mean that the two sentences have the same meaning?
Please comment. |
I prefer:
My grandfather died of a heart attack.
I found out that these two prepositions are interchangeably used with this verb[ die] but I always used "of"