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[daddy daycare]

I need help from people with knowledge, and not from jokers...

I am teaching TOEFL to my students, and one of them asked me the following, and I could not answer in class.. So now I need your help...

Here are the student's questions


Sentence: I think night time studies are detrimental to your health.

The student wants to know why not detrimental for your health.


Another one

You deprive your body of sleep.

The student wants to know why not deprive from sleep.

Please can someone help me and supply me with good correct answers....

Thanking you in advance

[pandapanda]

Those are the natural collocations. Search google for "detrimental to" and "detrimental for", do the same with "deprive of" and "deprive from".

[yawarakaijin]

Ahhh collocation:) Remember that word. Very, very useful whenever you are in a bind.

[gregoriomills]

Both are correct, and they mean the exact same thing.

If it helps at all, in Spanish "of" and "from" both translate to "de".

Yo soy de EEUU.
I am from USA.


Hyundai es un tipo de coche.
Hyundai is a type of car.

[lifeinkorea]

I think of "for" as being using "for" situations where the speaker or listener is removed from the topic.

"Please hold these books for my friend" (not "to")

"My friend" in this case is connected "to" the books (not "for"), but the person holding the books wouldn't necessarily read the books.

"I gave the books to him" (not "for")

"to" has a more direct association with the person.

I would change the example sentences above to:

"Studying at night is detrimental to your health."
"You will deprive your body of sleep." (as used in a conditional setting)