"against the rules" is an adverb, a property of action
and "break the rules" is action itself
i.e. "He acts against the rules" and "He breaks the rules"
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When you break the rules, you are implicitly against them.
'to break the rules' indicates the action ,while 'be against the rules' indicates the state.
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against = preposition
break = verb
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