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“Take you in the sky” vs. “bring you up to the sky” vs. “get you in the sky” — which one is correct?
If I have got a pilot licence, I will take you in the sky/bring you up to the sky/get you in the sky. Which one is correct?
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What to do with a list of verbs with different prepositional needs?
For example:
The community was not supportive of, or happy with the result.
The community was not supportive or happy with the result.
So when using two sets of verbs and prepositions (listing) in a ...
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“Starting with” vs. “starting from”
I would like to ask about the difference between the two phrases starting with and starting from.
Take the following two sentences for example:
Please give me all the names starting with A.
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Use of gerund without preposition “to”
Can I use gerunds with the word "concede" without using preposition "to" as in the sentence below?
He concedes killing his wife.
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“to spread over” vs. “to spread across” [closed]
I doubt whether I should use "over" or "across" for a liquid spreading "along" a surface.
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“Take the role” vs. “take over the role” vs. “take on the role”
Is there a significant difference between the three expressions, or can they be used interchangeably?
I'm trying to say that a colleague of mine succeeded to another after the latter had quit his ...
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Is “off to somewhere with a car” correct?
I wonder if the structure of the following sentence is correct:
I'm off to my place with my car.
I'm the one driving the car, but I prefer not to use the verb drive. Would the following ...
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Install on, install in, install to
When I say "programs to install on a new PC" it sounds alright to me, but I'm not sure if it's the correct usage. Which one of the following should I use?
Programs to install on a new PC
Programs to ...
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“leverage 'x' with 'y'”?
I read through other questions regarding the use of "leverage" and wonder if you can "leverage one resource with another? For example "Leverage our resources with your own to help you gain market ...
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“To try oneself in something” template usage
For example,
I'd like to try myself in farming.
Is this grammatically correct? I want to express that I never have done farming before and wish to begin doing it.
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Does “unfold with something” mean “unfold like something”?
Here's a sentence I don't completely understand.
The story leaps back and forth in time with crisp juxtaposing of scenes set in disparate places. The production nevertheless unfolds with the ...
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deputizing and covering…“for” or not
Which of the following is grammatical?
I am deputizing for him/her.
I am deputizing him/her.
I think in the case of covering you have to use:
I am covering for him/her.
...or do ...
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When to use “include” and “including”?
I know that include is a verb while including is a preposition but they made me confuse when it comes to their usage.
I usually confuse when to use include with including.
Most Thais like ...
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“Consists of” vs. “consists in”: different meanings of the verb, or the same meaning applied differently?
Mark Twain said,
Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
Could he have used consists of there instead of consists in and ...
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login and payoff are nouns. But can they be used as verbs?
I know that words like login and payoff are properly nouns but I increasingly notice many (not at all uneducated) people use them as verbs:
Will you payoff your credit card this month?
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“At” vs. “in” before verb
In a document I found the following sentence:
listeners are more accurate at understanding speech spoken in their own accent...
Would it be an error to use "in" instead of "at"?
Actually in ...
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“Translated in” vs. “translated to”
Both of these seem very similar to me. Is there any difference between "books translated to English" and "books translated in English"?
Google search returns many results for both (> 400,000), though ...
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Is using “get on developing” correct in this phrase?
You could get on developing this project and help me to add more features to that.
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Meaning of “running off” in this context [closed]
I do not understand the use of "run off" in the following sentence. Neither was I able to find any explanation so I guess it is not a phrase?
If your generator (software) was running off a ...
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“Book time off for some days”
I want to book some past days as time off via a time tracking system, and there is a reply message:
Cannot book time off for past days.
(Meaning that I should have booked time off before ...
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Difference between “stick with” and “stick to”?
The more I think about it the more confused I get:
One good example is here:
Hmm. Maybe something like this. It's the end of the day and things
didn't go well. We're meeting to talk about what ...
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“Go by foot” vs. “go on foot” [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
“London By Foot” vs. “London On Foot”
This is a very simple question, yet I did not find anybody that could give me a satisfactory answer. I ...
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Which is proper: “to debate X” or “to debate about X”?
Which version of this sentence is correct?
Doctoral students about to graduate, like me, often debate about what qualities make a successful scientist.
Doctoral students about to graduate, ...
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“Insert on a chain”?
I have some chained methods in my experiment like A→B→C . What is the best of way of expressing putting something new on this chain? Suppose that I want to add D to have A→B→C→D. Do I say I add D on ...
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Do we “study about” something?
I accept study about where study is a noun ("He conducted a study about changes in population"), but I saw this construct in a local newspaper article and it struck me as odd. Here, study is a verb. ...
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“Muse on” vs. “muse about”
I came across the verb muse, which roughly means to be absorbed in thought about any given thing. I wondered, when specifying what someone was musing about, would it be better to say:
I muse ...
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“Ambitious to [infinitive]” vs. “ambitious about [gerund]”
What is the correct preposition to use with ambitious?
I am ambitious to achieve success.
I am ambitious about achieving success.
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Does “help” take the preposition “to”? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What is the correct way to use infinitive after the verb “help”: with or without “to”?
“Help rule out” vs. “help to rule out” ...
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During (in) last (the) 4-5 years, it got (became? grown?) my main goal.
Also I would like to say that during last 4 or 5 years something has become my main goal (at work). I do not know how which preposition is the correct one, whether to use "the" with "last years" and ...
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“Cater to” vs. “cater towards”
I've heard both "cater to" and "cater towards" used, but I was wondering which one was correct. For example:
The event's theme seemed to cater to the artistic crowd.
The event's theme seemed ...
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“Agree on” vs. “agree with” vs. “agree to”
What are the differences between "agree on", "agree with" and "agree to"?
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Preposition Use: multiple prepositions to the same noun [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to combine in a sentence two verb + preposition pairs that have the same object?
Which of the following sentences is correct?
I listen, go, read and learn ...
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“Ponder about” or just “ponder”?
Which is correct?
He was pondering about the meaning of life.
He was pondering the meaning of life.
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Difference between “think of” and “think about”
Is there a difference between "think of something" and "think about something"? I've also met "have heard of/about something".
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“Look into” vs. “look at”
Are look into and look at interchangeable? If not what are the differences between the two?
I will look at my options and see what I have.
I will look into my options and see what I have.
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“Congratulate for” vs. “congratulate on”
Which is correct?
I congratulated him for coming first in the race.
I congratulated him on coming first in the race.
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“Expect of” vs. “expect from” [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Expected of, or expected from someone
Which of these two sentences is grammatically correct? Are both? What's the difference here?
What sort of work would be ...
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“Bash something” vs. “bash on something”
I was looking into my dictionary that lists many uses of the verb bash but always transitive ones.
According to that, I would expect to say:
He bashed him.
He bashed the chair.
But I can see ...
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What's the use of 'with' here? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Usage of the verb “provide”
Is the sentence “It provides people an easy way to communicate.” grammatically correct?
Can you provide me a mouse pad?
and
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Meaning of 'jumps across' in sentence [closed]
The sentence is,
The English teacher jumps across the room with a large stick.
Does it mean the English teacher really jumped from one position to another position?
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“Decide on” vs. “decide”
I got puzzled when putting the following pieces together. I checked it online but couldn't find a convincing explanation.
In large supermarkets, management must decide (on) what to put on sale.
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“Expected of” vs. “expected from”
It is expected of/from you to find the solution.
Such rude behavior was not expected of/from you.
I am quite sure that from is the correct usage in both cases, but of could be used in the ...
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Should “in” be used with “aiding and abetting”?
Aiding and abetting, also sometimes aiding or abetting, is often found in legal definitions of accessorial liability for crimes, for example "aiding or abetting a felony."
Is it proper to use "in" ...
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Meaning of “exported from somewhere”
I don't quite understand how one should use the expression "exported from somewhere". What does it mean when an item is exported from a given place?
So far I've always seen the verb export used like ...
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How should I understand “She cracked open a door”?
I learned the following sentence from 100 Greatest Science Discoveries of All Time by Kendall Haven:
Marie Curie's studies rank as one of the great turning points of science. Physics after Curie ...
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Can “intrude” be used transitively?
We can say "invade someone's privacy", but can the verb "intrude" be used in the same way without a preposition? As in,
Don't intrude my privacy.
Or should it be:
Don't intrude into my ...
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Meaning of 'up/down' after a verb [closed]
There are lots of instances of using 'up' or 'down' after verbs.
Instances: eat up, drink up, meet up, finish up, start up, fill up, clean up, wipe up, tie up, etc.
What do they add as meaning to a ...
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Preposition with verb “provide”
It appears the transitive verb provide has (at least) two prepositions:
provide (something) for (someone/something)
provide (something) to (someone/something)
For example,
The umbrellas ...
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“an example (how) to do something” or “an example about doing something”?
I will give you an example to write a CV.
or
I will give you an example how to write a CV.
or
I will give you an example about how to write a CV.
or
I will give you an example about writing a ...
