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Benefit Benefited True Businessmen Tourism From/By Passive Subject

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Keyword benefit
Sub Entry Number 2
Type of Sentence
Error Sentence It is not true that only businessmen are benefited by tourism.
Correct Sentence It is not true that only businessmen benefit from tourism.
Cloze Error Sentence It is not true that only businessmen [[are benefited by]] tourism.
Cloze Sentence It is not true that only businessmen [[benefit from]] tourism.
Cloze Answer benefit from
Choices are benefited by | benefit from
Explanation

Instead of using be benefited by (passive), use benefit from/by . The subject of benefit from/by is the receiver of the benefit: 'Do you think she has benefited from going to extra classes?' 'The room would benefit by altering the size of the window.'

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