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Dec 11, 2014 · IRAJ2000 said: 1. She accused the man for stealing. Unless she accused him of something else for stealing from her, this one makes no sense. For instance, he stole her necklace so the vindictive b.... accused him of raping her. You must realise how bizarre and unlikely this is, though.
Feb 4, 2008 · Romanian. Feb 4, 2008. #2. I'd say "of," it sounds more logical. If you say "for," it can be correct, it means "because": they were accused because they destroyed documents. They were accused of having destroyed documents. They were punished fo r it. EDIT: Oh, I'm sorry (thanks dn88, I must be going blind).
Sep 5, 2014 · Español - Argentina. Sep 5, 2014. #3. JustKate said: The accused's guilt is fine, grammatically. It looks a little awkward, though, which is why it's more common in speech than in writing. But if someone told you it's "not possible," that person is wrong. Hello, thank you very much for answering. Actually, the whole sentence is this: "In the ...
Jun 6, 2012 · Jun 6, 2012. #2. To my ears, "charged with" implies a legal process is involved; "accused of" just sounds like a moral judgement but not necessarily a criminal conviction. Whilst "accuse" isn't commonly used to talk about the law, "charged" is often used metaphorically in contexts unrelated to legal proceedings, so I would say that you can use ...
Apr 2, 2008 · Spain, spanish. Apr 2, 2008. #1. El verbo accuse of va seguido de gerundio? By the end of sixties the Cuban government was accused of promoting the revolution to Venezuela, Guatemala and Bolivia. GRACIAS.
Feb 24, 2014 · Feb 24, 2014. #5. In 'The boy is accused of stealing.', the participle 'stealing' is being used as a noun. 'Stealing' could be replaced with theft or murder or lying and so- on. We can write 'Stealing is against the law'. The participle of have + past participle can't be used as a noun: it needs a complement of some sort, such as a noun like car.
Jan 30, 2012 · Jan 30, 2012. #3. In the USA, the "accused" means "defendant in a criminal case." In most penal codes, you see the word. "defendant," not "the accused," but they mean the same thing and everyone understands it perfectly well. The "defendant" is used both in criminal cases (as noted above) and in civil cases, where a "plaintiff" (demandante ...
Jul 5, 2011 · "The boss accused John of theft and called the police.The police arrested John and charged him with theft." An accusation comes first, a charge is the formal process of announcing that you think the person was responsible for the crime (and needs to be brought before a court for the case to be heard.)
Oct 14, 2012 · Tazzler said: "charged" and "accused" cannot take "for" and "blame" would need "the" in front of "armed robbery" for the sentence to make sense. Hope it helps. Thank you Tazzler. But how about the examples Google has given me? That is: blamed for pet deaths, charged for bribery, accused for poor working conditions, arrested for civil disobedience.
Apr 29, 2019 · Similarly, the person wrongly accused is probably innocent or the crime the person commits is another one, not the one one accuses him/her of. And, "wrongly accuse" is mainly used in everyday life , like "My friend wronly accused me of stealing her money", but if I want to sue my friend, my friend may be charged with slander or something like that, and it becomes " My friend wrongfully accused ...
