By Dates, Prepositions

please clear my doubts

The facelift to the roads or the facelift of the roads>>which is right preposition and why? As a new democratic government consolidates itself, it’s an opportune moment to take India-Pakistan relations to their best ever.>>>is this sentence ok Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden...

Re: At August 31 ??

.There is no rule at play here-- either preposition could have been used in either position. However, the writer should have been consistent. Although in general English, at is unacceptable before mention of a day or date, it enjoys this specialized use in the world of finance.

Re: Alongside

Yankee wrote: Liveinjapan wrote:Six candidates are sitting on the same side of a long rectangle table, facing the audience.Hi LiJ The change of wording in Sentence 3 would probably lead me to use the preposition 'on' rather than 'at'. In addition, I would prefer a comma after the word 'table'...

Re: Alongside

Liveinjapan wrote:Six candidates are sitting on the same side of a long rectangle table, facing the audience.Hi LiJThe change of wording in Sentence 3 would probably lead me to use the preposition 'on' rather than 'at'. In addition, I would prefer a comma after the word 'table' in Sentence 3. ...

Re: Effective from Jan 1, 2008...

Infinik wrote: Structure like "effective + date" makes me very anxious, because I'd think the preposition in-between (eg. "from") has gone missing. Question is, in legal/formal statement, does the structure mean "to become effective"? Such as: Effective Jan 1, 2008, the regulation will apply...

Re: Effective from Jan 1, 2008...

Avangi wrote: I'm very anxious to hear what our British members have to say. Being effective is one thing; becoming effective is quite another. To me, S2 is a misuse of become. But of course if enough people say it, it becomes the law. This perfectly makes sense. I understand that. ...

Re: 'in' or 'for'

The prepositions don't depend on the case, they depend on the time. I'm afraid there aren't rules, because the formatin is rather idiomatic. You have to learn them each in their own context. I was born in 1966. I was born in May. I was born on the 23rd. I was born at 11:41 at night: In for year...

Re: grammar questions

1) Are my sentences correct but with a different meaning? I didn't quite get the nuance between the 2 prepositions. Would you please explain the difference again? a) "The plays had been / were performed THROUGHOUT the next ten years"-- many times /every year in that periodb) "He had acted /...

grammar questions

Dear teachers, Would you please help me with the following difficuties? 1) Are my sentences correct but with a different meaning? I didn't quite get the nuance between the 2 prepositions. Would you please explain the difference again? a) "The plays had been / were (?) performed THROUGOUT /...

Re: preposition at the end

The idea that a sentence should never end in a preposition dates from a time when the teaching of English was firmly based on Latin usage. However, English is not Latin and is not even one of the Latin family of languages. English is a Germanic language and in Germanic languages sentences may...