Wednesday, April 1, 2015

suffer with/suffer from: Common Errors in English Usage Entry for Wednesday, April 1, 2015

suffer with/suffer from
Although technical medical usage sometimes differs, in normal speech we say that a person suffers from a disease rather than suffering with it.


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