This provides food for thought. Parents provide for their children. To provide for=to sustain or support physically or financially or in some other way that does not just mean to give or supply. whereas: provide x to y just means: supply or give x to y. There is also the idea of make provision for [arrange for]: The will provided for their upkeep.
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The verb provide has two different subcategorisation frames: provide something [ to somebody] provide somebody with something In the first, the material provided is the object, in the second the recipient is the object. Both are valid, and both are in common use. The difference between them is the with phrase, which must be there to get meaning 2: if there is only one (direct) object, then ...
4 The correct word for someone who provides a service is servitor, although this is a bit archaic in usage and usually they would be referred to according to exactly what service they were providing.
What is a person (not a company) who provides a service called?
6 When writing a CV or something similar, one often provides contact information to a person, who may be contacted for references about oneself (e.g. about work attitude or other qualifications). What is the person, who provides the reference or testimonial, called?
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To my ear "We recommend that he provide an appropriate response" sounds better than "provides" what is this tense/construct called and which is right ?