2023-11-01 10:00:28
The verb pay attention is followed by the preposition contra and not of the preposition a.
However, it is common to find phrases like “He takes critics to court for attacking his honor” or “He opened a file against him for abuse of authority and for notorious and public acts that violate dignity or decorum.”
As indicated by the Panhispanic dictionary of doubts, pay attentionwith the meaning of ‘committing, or constituting, an attack against a person, a thing or a law or principle’, It is an intransitive verb that is constructed with the preposition contra and it is not appropriate to use a to enter the complement.
Therefore, in the previous examples it would have been appropriate to use the preposition contra: “He takes critics to court for attacking his honor” and “He opened a file against him for abuse of authority and for notorious and public acts that violate dignity or decorum.”
Likewise, it is also inappropriate to omit the preposition contraas in “The project submitted for consultation must not violate the fundamental rights of the subject”, where it would have been advisable to write “The project submitted for consultation must not violate the fundamental rights of the subject.”
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