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The preposition in the above examples and ones like them between the noun and the verbal noun, is very often, in the spoken language, softened to : and this  is not heard before or after a vowel: as
 * You ought to take advice.
 * You ought to take advice.

In any sentence of the first set of examples there is question of only one thing; e.g.,, &c., but in each of the sentences of the second set there is a relation between two things: e.g., and ,  and , &c., and to express this relationship a preposition is used between the two nouns. If the relation between the nouns be altered the preposition must also be altered, as—