Is this sentence correct?
John differs from his boss on the usefulness of the business restructuring strategy.
A lot of you might think that the sentence sounds correct, specially those of you who think 'differ from' is the correct idiom; the sentence is in fact wrong as the correct idiom here would be 'differ with' and not 'differ from'.
Rule: Use 'differ from' to imply 'unlike' (as in one thing differing from the other) and 'differ with' to imply 'disagreement' (as in differing with a point of view).
Examples:
- No one can tell how the two cars differ from one another.
- The two political parties differ with each other's ideologies.
- How is the book different from the movie?
- The director differs with the producer.
Copy pastefd from Aristotelprep and like Aristotleprep you have wrongly used "one another" in the first example. :)
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