Posted by Nightedge · October 23, 2015 · 2 replies
Today I said to my American friend and used of:
-The context allowed __ expectations that were opposite.
This American friend told me he has never heard of after allow in American English; do you think in UK English we could say so? If yes, then does it fit in my sentence? (the phrase verb=make something possible)
It's rare but does occur in both British and American English. I found two examples in the British National Corpus :
Although my household and ARP duties did not allow of a visit to the Western hospital...
But in fact the experimental results turn out to allow of more ambiguity than has commonly been supposed.
and a second in the Brown University Standard Corpus of Present-Day American English :
a sufficient number of feed states must be investigated to allow of interpolation;
But generally for would be more usual. The number of examples of allow for was much higher in both corpora.
Excellent answer. Thank you.
