All kinds of music are provided for ...

[sitifan]

All kinds of music are provided for by the various record companies. (My bold.)
Source: Longman Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs, page 565.
Can we omit the preposition "for" ?

 

[emsr2d2]

Are you certain you've copied the sentence exactly? I'm not concerned about the word "for" but there's a glaring error in that sentence that I wouldn't expect to find in a dictionary.

 

[sitifan]

Are you certain you've copied the sentence exactly? I'm not concerned about the word "for" but there's a glaring error in that sentence that I wouldn't expect to find in a dictionary.

The typo is corrected. Thank you.

 

[jutfrank]

Can we omit the preposition "for" ?

No. Obviously, without 'for', it's just the verb 'provide', not the phrasal verb 'provide for'.

 

[Jack101]

All kinds of music are provided for by the various record companies. (My bold.)
Source: Longman Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs, page 565.
Can we omit the preposition "for" ?

In “are provided for by the various record companies,” the verb is the phrasal verb provide for, which means to supply or to make available. The preposition for is an essential part of that verb.

If you remove for, the meaning changes and the sentence becomes ungrammatical in this structure:

All kinds of music are provided by the various record companies.
→ This sounds incomplete or unnatural because provide normally requires for + what is supplied.

If you want to avoid for, you’d need to restructure the sentence, for example:

✔ The various record companies provide all kinds of music.
✔ All kinds of music are supplied by the various record companies.

So: “for” cannot be omitted unless you rewrite the sentence using a different structure or verb.
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[teechar]

@Jack101 :
1- I edited your post above to indicate that you're not a teacher of English. In any future replies/answers you provide, you need to show that. You can add a note to that effect to your signature if you like.
2- Please do not use bold text unnecessarily.
3- Which AI tool did you use to formulate your answer?