Reader appears in several different patterns. Reader of is common for someone who reads something. Other prepositions depend on the meaning and context.
Use reader of for someone who reads a type of material. Reader for can describe a person reviewing work or reading for another person. From, by, and to reader are less common and usually depend on a larger sentence structure.
These forms are not interchangeable. Choose the construction by meaning, not by which preposition appears most often.
Use reader of to describe a person's reading interests or habits.
Reader for can describe someone who reads and evaluates material for a company, editor, or institution.
From a reader functions as a normal prepositional phrase showing origin.
By a reader is used when reader is the agent of an action, often in passive sentences.
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.
Reader does not normally take to as its own complement.
✕ She is a reader to mystery novels. ✓ She is a reader of mystery novels.From shows origin, while by identifies the person doing an action.
✓ We received a message from a reader.Choose the expression that matches the intended meaning.
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Yes. It is common when describing what a person reads.
Yes. A reader for a publisher or organisation often evaluates written material.
In phrases like clear to a reader, the preposition belongs to the adjective clear, not to the noun reader.
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