Discussion
In the sentence below, a part is printed in bold. Choose the alternative that improves it. If the sentence needs no change, choose ‘No improvement’.
The two proposals differ with each other in several important respects.
Answer: B
Correct answer: from
Differ takes from when it means to be unlike: the two proposals differ from each other. It takes with only in the quite separate sense of to disagree, and then the object is a person: I differ with you on that point. Since the sentence is about how the proposals are unlike one another, from is required. The related adjective and noun keep the same preposition: different from and a difference from. British usage also allows different to, and American different than before a clause, but different from is the form Indian examinations expect. A group of verbs takes a fixed preposition that must be memorised rather than reasoned out: differ from, abstain from, refrain from, prevent from, deter from, derive from and suffer from.
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