Have you ever come across a dilemma when you were not sure what preposition you must have used with the verb “die” to make the meaning of the sentence perfectly correct? In fact, the correct use of preposition with the verb “die” usually leaves both a reader and a writer very confused.

   Let me illustrate: Sometime, a writer may write or a speaker may confidently say, “The versatile Bollywood thespian died FROM cancer, WITH cancer, and OF cancer.” Can you guess use of which preposition with the verb ‘die’ in this case is grammatically correct? In fact, with the verb ‘die’ comes the preposition “of” if someone dies of a specific disease or some reasons which is well-known. The preposition “from” follows if something leads to death.

Some more examples of correct usage of preposition with verb die are:

Die (OF) To die of (Hundreds of tribals die of....