prepositions
No preposition when recommending a person or thing to someone else. to goes with the person to whom the recommendation is addressed. for goes with the position for
Strongly recommended means the recommendation comes to you ''strongly'' ie you are being powerfully urged to do, or not do... something. Eg it is strongly recommended that
If person A gives person B a recommendation, can you call A recommender and B recommendee — or are these words made up? I''ve seen both forms used in everyday
When abbreviating the word "recommendations" as "reco''s", is it proper to use the apostrophe to show that it''s an abbreviation, or does it conflict with a possessive apostrophe?
Depends on the context. Is the recommendation good/bad/mediocre, or are there recommendations you might make about changes to the dataset?
The recommend + person + to -infinitive formulation seems to have been more common in the past, while the recommend that + person + subjunctive appears to be gaining
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