Choose the correct preposition: He has been suffering ____ diabetes for ten years.
- A. with
- B. from
- C. of
- D. in
Explanation
Suffer from is the standard collocation for illnesses and conditions. Suffer with occasionally appears in speech but is not accepted in formal usage or on entry tests. Die of, cure of and recover from follow similarly fixed patterns worth memorising together.
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