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Re: at or in?

Here's what the BBC Learning English site has to say: To be good at and to be good in are often interchangeable, and there is no easy rule to follow. In simple statements, like the...

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Re: spend

Gerunds like jogging can be used after any preposition. In the expression devote time to, the preposition in question is to. to is not part of an infinitive there. Note all the prepositions below. to is just one of them! A distinction must be made between the to of the infinitive, which is...

ESL General English Grammar Questions by CalifJim 2 yr 221 days ago Prepositions Gerunds Expressions Football
Re: Problems: 'whom' and 'who'

Whom is possible instead of who (for people) when it is the object of the verb in the relative clause. But it's not normally used in spoken English. Ex: The boy who is playing football is my brother. The boy who / whom I wanted to see is my friend. In the 1st case you can't have...

ESL General English Grammar Questions by Coachpotato 3 yr 78 days ago Verbs Prepositions Clauses Whom Football
Messager

I hope to get help with two questions: 1. preposition "He plays football on the school team." I wonder if "on" can be replaced by "in" or "for", if so, what is the difference? 2. chat room. What talking to friends on the Internet, what is the page called? Is it a "chat room"? Wat is the verb for...

ESL General English Grammar Questions by Guest 3 yr 187 days ago Verbs Prepositions Football
Review of The Grouchy Grammarian by Thomas Parrish

This book looked promising – it was subtitled A How-Not-To Guide to the 47 Most Common Mistakes in English Made by Journalists, Broadcasters, and Others Who Should Know Better – and in the first few pages I came across a passage referring to that group: What did these people study in high school...

Book and Film Reviews by John C. 4 yr 321 days ago Genders Football Grammar Tenses Difference between Verbs Past tenses Adverbs Prepositions Analogies
Re: Such

Hi, sorry for not trying to answer. I’ve just dumped reference material from the net. Hope it helps. "such" Pocket Fowler's Modern English Usage. Ed. Robert Allen. Oxford University such. 1. SUCH AS AN EMPHASIZER. How can the House express its indignant rejection of football hooliganism...

ESL General English Grammar Questions by wumanfu 5 yr 9 days ago Regards Prepositions Constructions Nouns Pronouns Relative pronouns Universities Football
The use of 'on' (Loke)

Please clarify the use of the preposition `on' in the sentence below. Is it necessary to use `on'. There is a football match on this Friday. Thank you.

ESL General English Grammar Questions by Guest 5 yr 45 days ago Prepositions Football

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