Do or Make? Open to or open on?

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Anonymous  #342130  Thu, 22 Mar 07 04:25 PM

Hi!

  Please, help me with my doubts. Which sentence below is correct ?

1) "Please, do a research about Valentine's Day".

                    (or)

2) "Please, make a research about Valentine's Day".  And why?

By the way is the word "research" the appropriate one for the meaning above ?

 Other day I heard a teacher saying: "Please open the book to page 42"  Is it correct? And why? (I thought the correct form was:

"Please open the book on page: 42").

                                                                                                          Thank you!!! 

                                                                                                              Juan

  
Grammar Geek  #342143  Thu, 22 Mar 07 05:01 PM

Hi Juan,

"Research" isn't generally countable, so you don't do or make "a research" at all. You can simply say "Please research Valentine's Day" or you can say "Please do some research on Valentine's Day."

Also, in my experience, you do research on something, not about, but that is something that may have regional variation.

In the U.S., we open our books to a page. There have been long threads in the forum already about this. Apparently in the UK, you can open your book at a page. But not on

(You can look on page 42, or see that there is a picture of a green lizard on page 42, but not "Please open your book on page 42.")

  
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Anonymous  #342153  Thu, 22 Mar 07 05:22 PM

Hi, Grammar Geek!

       Thank you very much for your help,

                                                     Juan.

  
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