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Which preposition to use with partitives
of Occurrences 2%
8.Collective nouns, when they are merely partitive of the plural, like the words sort and number above, are usually connected with a plural verb, even though they have a singular definitive; as, "And this sort of adverbs commonly admit of Comparison.
after Occurrences 1%
A peculiar use of the preposition de, allied to, and possibly derived from, the partitive after a negative:
