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Originally Posted by Suki
lol what? She is incapable of giving a valid explanation to a question she is expecting her students to know? Wtf!?
Oh and guess what, I was in English class today and we were reading a text from which we had to write a summary, and as I was reading I came across the sentence: "After decorating the raft with flowers made of aluminum foil, the people released it on the great Irrawaddy River, and the little statue began its fateful journey"
First thing I thought: aluminum is spelt the American way, cause I think (please Brits, do not hesitate to correct me if I'm mistaken lol) in British English it's spelt like aluminium, so I assumed whoever wrote the article must have been American; then I noticed the "made of" I had totally overlooked and realized that it might as well be an American thing, so I asked my teacher whether it would be possible to change the preposition of to from, and she said it was totally exchangeable ^_^ So I told her that a friend of mine (meaning you) had written so in an exam and it had been marked as wrong, and she said the same I did, that made from wasn't wrong but it stressed the origin of the material as in the place or conditions it had been created in, so your answer would have been right if, for instance, the sentence had been something like: this wool is made from long haired sheep, because you want to emphasize that long-haired sheep is where the wool comes from, but if you simply wanna say what material a certain thing is made of, you need to use of since that is the correct preposition this particular verb goes with:
Examples:
That box is made of wood <-- meaning the material of which the box is made comes from wood.
The car is made from industrial minerals <--- meaning industrial minerals were used but they're not what the car is made of...
Ok, now I have confused myself to the point where I don't even know what I'm saying and I doubt I'm making much sense xDDDDDD! ... so I'll just jet now lol
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I'm Suki's friend. haha!... Yeah, she was unable to explain the difference, so I just gave up explaining things to her. I think she's just pissed off with me because I don't go to her lessons.
I understand what you'e saying, but I honestly think it's just a little difference between British English and American. At least, in this Uni they're teaching American!