Enhance with is the usual pattern for adding a feature or quality. Enhance by is mainly used to show degree or method, often in passive structures.
Use enhance with when something is added to improve another thing: enhance the dish with herbs. Use by to show the amount or method of improvement: profits were enhanced by 10%.
These forms are not interchangeable. Choose the construction by meaning, not by which preposition appears most often.
Use with for the thing that is added to create improvement or extra value.
Use by for percentages, amounts, or factors that produce improvement, especially in passive sentences.
Enhance can directly take an object without another preposition.
The same subject can take different constructions because each sentence answers a different question.
Some combinations appear in real text but do not mean what learners often assume.
When you mention the thing added to improve something, with is usually more natural.
✕ She enhanced the cake by chocolate chips. ✓ She enhanced the cake with chocolate chips.Enhance can take a direct object without another preposition.
✕ The update enhanced to usability. ✓ The update enhanced usability.By often introduces a cause or measurable change, not an added object.
✕ The room was enhanced by new curtains and cushions. ✓ The room was enhanced with new curtains and cushions.Choose the expression that matches the intended meaning.
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Enhance with is the usual choice when you add something to improve another thing. Enhance by is more common for causes, methods, or amounts.
Yes. Enhance often takes a direct object, such as enhance quality or enhance performance.
Yes. By is standard for amounts or percentages of change.
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