Confused Prepositions

Using from for by

Rule: by should be used after the passive form to denote the doer of an action.

Incorrect Usage: He was punished from the law.

Correct Usage: He was punished by the law.

Incorrect omission of prepositions

Omission of the verb to be from the passive.

Don’t say: Charles Dickens born in 1812.

ü  Say: Charles Dickens was born in 1812.