What is the difference between for and against

Question about English UK. Feel free to just provide example sentences. Report copyright infringement. The owner of it will not be notified. Only the user who asked this question will see who disagreed with this answer. Read more comments. Otherwise, the cons are the disadvantages of TV as an example The cons of TV is that it will cause an eye sore if you watch it along time.

Ben Davis May 2, What is the difference between against and for? What is the preposition of against? How do you use to and for in a sentence? What is the meaning of against? What kind of word is against? What type of word is for? What type of word is four? What type of word is good? What kind of word is easily? What easy means? What is the example of hard? Viewed 3k times. Source The parents of a brother-sister duo accused of a horrific acid attack on a pregnant woman and her 2-year-old daughter have been arrested.

In the sentence "acid attack against a pregnant woman" what is the difference between 'on' and 'against'? Improve this question. Mari-Lou A That is not a sentence. It seems more like a title from a print publication newspaper or magazine for example. Within the particular context on or against could be used interchangeably. Against is just a longer word and might make the title two lines instead of one.

Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. All the examples below are taken from Google news UN officials condemn attacks against an aid convoy his attacks against a Hispanic federal judge more attacks against Israeli soldiers and civilians Pakistan has initiated a string of attacks against India including major Improve this answer.

Lawrence can I ask you for feedback on this answer? Would you say that it is fairly accurate, or have I missed something? Yes, it looks fairly accurate to me. I particularly like the noun vs verb observation you made. Your last point about the Ngram results may be difficult to interpret - more common doesn't always translate to preferred. More on the answer. The feedback you were looking for was about the first Ngram, wasn't it?

NB: the link to that Ngram is missing.