| 词组 | conducive |
| 释义 | conducive It is hard to understand why language commentators persist in reminding us that conducive is used with to and not of. The evidence in the Merriam-Webster citation files is unmistakable: conducive is almost always used with to: • Thus a feeling of apprehensiveness, conducive to attention, is aroused in the reader —T. S. Eliot, "Charles Whibley," in Selected Essays, 1932 The language critics insist that of should never be used with conducive and the fact is that it is not so used— not, at least, in contemporary English. We have no citations for this combination. The OED mentions it but labels it obsolete and shows just one citation, that from 1793. The OED also labels as obsolete the construction conducive for. We do have a single example of this use taken from the letter of a correspondent in 1975. The evidence, though, is overwhelming for conducive to. |
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