By Prepositions, Conversations

Re: conversation - date

Hello Mr. Micawber, I didn't understand (iii). For three days only, beginning 11 May. I have always thought a preposition is needed.

Re: Hi Hoa Thai,

NL888 wrote: Thanks for replying. But would you like to tell me the secret why you could get it so well since you are in Vietnam ? Is English your native language? The name Hoa Thai is absolutely Vietnamese! Are you an English teacher/professor in college there?Hi, Thanks for the...

Re: Comes in colours.

Yes, I'll and we'll are contractions of I shall and we shall. Yes, teaching whom does irritate me a little but it's not tested as much so minor irritation only. I accept and use shall in my own conversations and writing but then I learned my grammar when you couldn't end a sentence with a...

prepositions again..

Hey folks, In the email conversation with our supplier of the ActiveX component from US, I need to express to the supplier the fact that we really need to have fixed one hot problem, which concerns one particular capability, which our customers really like . And it's impossible to release our...

Re: evening (without preposition) / to start to doing

evening is the subject of the sentence. You certainly don't want a preposition before it! You could optionally add the, however. The evening of a hot day ... *to start to doing something is unusual, as you say. That's because it's wrong -- for the intransitive use of start. But note...

Re: What is the difference between "Talk"(VERB) and "Speak"(VERB)

Hi, When I first learned English, hear and listen were clear to me. The later requires the attentiveness of a listener. However, talk and speak ran my teacher in circle. He took an English-Vietnamese dictionary and told us to stick with the translation and then he failed to reason why some...

Re: What is the difference between "Talk"(VERB) and "Speak"(VERB)

They talked for a while.(they were in conversation)They speaked for a while.(they made sound)He is talking about the issue.He is speaking of the issue.(both are the same but the prepositions are different)They talk business.(they discuss business)They speak business(wrong)Money talks.(idiom)Money...

Re: with or without 'at'

Grammar Geek wrote:I go home, and I stay home, and I am home.Certainly, with motion involved, there's no preposition: I went home, I ran home, I returned home... Hi GGThat's certainly always true. However, especially in literary style and in upper-class British English there is a tendency to...

Re: Which way would you sway?

Milky wrote: <I would be interested to see quotations from the early English grammarians that presented spoken English as somehow inferior, or that demonstrated an imposition of inappropriate rules from Latin. > Do you doubt that was the case? "Doubt" is too strong a word. I would be...

Re: who/whom

Use who for the subject of the clause; use whom otherwise. This is the same as the difference between he and him. The man who came to the door was selling magazine subscriptions. (He came to the door.) The man whom my sister married is an idiot. (My sister married him.) The man to whom the...