"There are many advantages of NP" vs. "NP has many advantages"

[englishteacher79]

I'm wondering whether we can say "Doing this (whatever it is) has many advantages" or would it be better to say "There are many advantages of doing this".

Sometimes, I feel that my students use a lot of "NP has..." when it should be "There are...of NP". So I'm wondering in the case of the above, are both right?

Is there a rule of when to use "There are.....of NP" as opposed to "NP has.."

Thanks.

 

[Rover_KE]

Re: "There are many advantages of NP" vs. "NP has many advantages"

I'd say "Doing this has many advantages" or "There are many advantages to doing this".

What's NP?

 

[englishteacher79]

Re: "There are many advantages of NP" vs. "NP has many advantages"

Great. Thanks for your response. NP = Noun Phrase.

I used to teach "advantages to", but then went on to teaching "advantages of". It seems that both are used when checking in a corpus.

Do you think both are correct? If so, why would you use "advantages to"?

Thanks.

 

[philo2009]

Re: "There are many advantages of NP" vs. "NP has many advantages"

This is one/the advantage OF doing X.

There are a number of advantages TO doing X.

 

[charliedeut]

Re: "There are many advantages of NP" vs. "NP has many advantages"

Also "The advantages OF doing X are..."

 

[englishteacher79]

Re: "There are many advantages of NP" vs. "NP has many advantages"

Wow, that's interesting. I never knew there were such rules.

Could someone explain the rules more clearly now, rather than just through the examples?

From what I see, if you're talking about more than one advantage, then it's "to", although charliedeut mentioned using "of" in his sentence above.

Thanks.

 

[philo2009]

Re: "There are many advantages of NP" vs. "NP has many advantages"

Essentially, if you begin with 'there is/are' (etc.) you will need 'to' rather than 'of'.