to provide VS to provide with Hi, I've happened to read both these different structures of the verb "to provide" in texts, papers and articles. My question is: To provide SOMETHING to SOMEONE (My parents provided a car both to me and my sister) To provide SOMEONE with SOMETHING (My friends provided me with the money I needed to buy a new car) Do they have exactly the same meaning, so as you can use either one or the other? Is it just a "word order difference" to set the sentence, but they have the same meaning? Thank you!