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Bookmark or Share- people would benefit vs people would be benefitedHi all, the following sentence comes from a passage written by a non-native English teacher: If Seoul were to become the cultural hub of Asia, it would be great news for the territory as many people would be benefited. I've been taught that "benefit" is used in the active sense regardless of...
- someone's benefit "from" or "of" getting information?Hi, In the following sentence, which is the correct preposition out of the two in bold? "Evaluators could simply be making a trade-off by weighing the friend’s benefit from/of getting the information according to his preceding grade: the higher the grade, the less he would benefit from the...
- be benefited (passive) - WordReference ForumsHi all, can the verb "benefit" be used in the passive? For example: Everyone will be benefited if the government spends more money on education. or: Everyone will be benefited from the increased money spent on education. I rarely see "benefit" used in the passive so I was wondering. :)...
- benefit me/myself - WordReference ForumsWhich sentence below is correct? Doing what I like will definitely benefit me as well as the company. Doing what I like will definitely benefit myself as...
- benefit 'from' or 'by' - WordReference ForumsI think either is acceptable in your sentence. I would say that "by" indicates that careful reading of X is the method by which historians will gain benefit (it does not say what the benefit is, explicitly); and "from" indicates that such reading is the source of their benefit.
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