I wonder if I can also write "We provide you the ideal environment" or only "we provide you with the ideal environment"
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Related: https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/137660/provide-vs-provide-with – Z. Cochrane Jun 03 '20 at 17:16
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In my opinion, you want to say, "We provide you with the ideal environment." or "We provide the ideal environment for you." or just "We provide the ideal environment."
The sentence, "We provide you the ideal environment." reads awkwardly to a native English speaker in the U.S.
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Yes, it looks like provide is definitely a transitive predicate, and is working its way up to be bitransitive. With an indirect object, dative alternation doesn't work correctly in American English, but it's OK as long as the verb is considered to be provide with. Soon the with in provide with will become optional, like the of in because of, because syntactic change. – John Lawler Dec 04 '13 at 16:05