To take care about/of.

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Ksenia

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Hello!

Here is a sentence:
Parents always take care about/of their children.

What preposition is correct here (or, maybe, both variants are possible)?

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Parents take care of their children.
 

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Parents always care about their children too.
 

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What about this "" If we take care about what the witnesses just told about the way he was acting and if we consider what the police officers think, Kordic was on the drugs, " Gagnon said."?
 

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What about this "" If we take care about what the witnesses just told about the way he was acting and if we consider what the police officers think, Kordic was on the drugs, " Gagnon said."?

I don't think that was said by a native speaker. "What the witnesses just told" and "was on the drugs" are not natural English.
 

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Could be. I came across it on the COCAE.
 

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And what about this: "What the witnesses just said", and "was into drugs". Does it sound natural?
 
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