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How the use the word "prone to" in a sentence?
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- galLv 55 years agoFavorite Answer
"Prone" is an adjective. We use "prone to", when we speak about negative aspects in someone's life. If someone experiences something unpleasant, we say he or she is prone to do something or is prone to something.
1) Farmed fish are prone to disease
2) Kids are all prone to eat junk food
Source(s): http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/engli... I am not a native speaker of English. - ?Lv 75 years ago
Thieves are prone to steal just as hunters are prone to pursue. The word, "prone" means tend to or be likely to do whatever.
- 5 years ago
Prone alone usually means lying down motionless whereas prone to seems to mean an inevitable situation like a person prone to drunkenness .
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- forte88engLv 75 years ago
he practised the presentation in front of a mirror several times as he was prone to stammering when nervous.
Source(s): teacher of english as a foreign language.