Preposition: in

• law: The SSC decided that the DAT's decision of 20 January 1994 had been erroneous in law.

Infinitive complement

• specify: It is erroneous to specify a size not supported by the compiler. [ ] Rationale.

• think: It is natural but erroneous to think of files being " in " directories.

• suppose: On the other hand, it would be erroneous to suppose that this inhumanity was characteristic of the Carmarthenshire gentry.

• say: This shows that MENJ's claim that the Quran rejects these accounts as " fictions " is simply erroneous to say the least.

Modifies a noun

• assumption: The mistake was based on the erroneous assumption that the earth was flat.

• impression: Any essay on the nature of Usenet cannot ignore the erroneous impressions held by many Usenet users.

• assertion: Yet neither Bravo nor Osama has supplied us with any proof for their erroneous assertion.

• belief: Police officer not acting in course of duty where held person in erroneous belief that person had been arrested.

• conception: It may be said that in this erroneous conception lies the original sin of Menshevism, the theoretical ground for its entire future downfall.

• conclusion: James is also quick to draw erroneous conclusions from my statement about how a poll could be held.

Modifying Another Word

• wholly: However, on further examination, the claim can be seen to be wholly erroneous.

• entirely: This method of procedure, however, is not entirely erroneous.

• totally: What one person or even a vet says about a breed may be totally erroneous.

• completely: What the Member opposite should explain is why he is still using these completely erroneous figures.

• possibly: Hence my possibly erroneous opinion that more exposure would be good.

• equally: In our view, both these positions are equally erroneous.

Used with adjective complement

• prove: Cosmic Conspiracies are open to ideas until they are proven erroneous.

• consider: It is the United States ' decision to withdraw from the ABM Treaty of 1972, which Russia considers erroneous.

• regard: Sangharakshita is a well-known critic of what he regards as erroneous, or misplaced beliefs and practices.