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JCDenton  #502212  Fri, 18 Apr 08 11:57 AM

Hi my EF friends,

May I have a question about prepositions again?..:-((....It concerns the email which I'm gonna send to our collegues from US. Please what is grammatically correct?

If you have a question on our product manager..../ question to our product manager.....Which preposition is correct? on/to?

This part of the English is driving me nuts...:-(((

 

regards

JCD
  
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Yoong Liat  #502214  Fri, 18 Apr 08 12:07 PM

JCDenton

Hi my EF friends,

May I have a question about prepositions again?..:-((....It concerns the email which I'm gonna send to our collegues from US. Please what is grammatically correct?

If you have a question on our product manager../ question to our product manager..Which preposition is correct? on/to?

JCD

If you have a question for our product manager ...
  
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JCDenton  #502220  Fri, 18 Apr 08 12:16 PM

Thank you Yoong Liat.

Truth be told, I was thinking about this alternative too. All three options sounds me natural...Boy, I don't know. It seems that you need to be an native speaker to get the prepositions under the skin...Tongue Tied

Anyway, thank you again.

 

 
  
Damir  #502380  Fri, 18 Apr 08 07:38 PM
JCDenton

Thank you Yoong Liat.

Truth be told, I was thinking about this alternative too. All three options sounds me natural...Boy, I don't know. It seems that you need to be an native speaker to get the prepositions under the skin...Tongue Tied

Anyway, thank you again. 

 

 

I also have problems with prepositions. Only thing why I have problems is that my language doesn't use some of them as English does. Thanks to you native speakers willing to help us we can ask you anything about it. :)

  
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Yoong Liat  #502383  Fri, 18 Apr 08 07:47 PM

Prepositions are very confusing. I think a lot of people, includng me, will also have difficulty every now and then deciding which one to use. To make matters worse, what is correct in BrE is wrong in AmE.
  
Damir  #502417  Fri, 18 Apr 08 09:09 PM
Again a problem with prepositions.

How to say when you have an opinion about something... "This is how I look on/at things." 

I think it's 'on' but I'm not sure. 
  
Grammar Geek  #502422  Fri, 18 Apr 08 09:46 PM

pssst - It's "get them under your belt."

 

That's how I look at things.

Don't worry - they don't make sense, there are no rules, and you'll never be able to know just by looking at a verb which one to use.

But only in a few cases will people actually not know what you mean if you use the wrong one!
  
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JCDenton  #502616  Sat, 19 Apr 08 01:54 PM

Grammar Geek

..But only in a few cases will people actually not know what you mean if you use the wrong one!

This is very interesting...Thank you GG.

regards

JCD

 

 

 
  
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