<li>protest against</li>
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<p>anything else?</p>
<p>No that I know of.. I think it is most proper to have no preposition if it is a verb. "protest the war..." If it's a noun, theres a "protest against war." If you're creative you might use "of" to describe who's protesting...</p>
<p>Sishu7, I think you nailed it; that's all I can think of, too. Nice distinction between the verb and the noun form of "protest."</p>
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<p>can you protest against something?</p>
<p>protest against seems repetitive and the word "against" is redundant? (I think.)</p>
<p>The usual case I know of is that no preposition follows the word "protest", but that a noun may instead hold that place. Can anyone clarify this?</p>
<p>My guess is that if you searched hard enough, you could find some publication that used the expression "protest against (something)." But it's not very good usage; it's wordy because the word "against" is unnecessary.</p>
<p>To respond to Quesce: yes, protest normally takes a direct object (it gets no preposition).</p>