According to language legend, a classified ad once made this intriguing offer: Antique desk suitable for lady with thick legs and large drawers. And if you believe that one, I have another: Mixing ...

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Last week, we identified ‘in the bus’, ‘enter into a place’ and ‘discuss about’ as some of the prepositional/tautological errors we should avoid. When ...

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PREPOSITIONS form a pretty exclusive club. Unlike nouns and verbs, of which there are squillions each, Wikipedia lists over a hundred modern one-word prepositions, a few two-word ("next to") and three ...

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Today, we are looking at four other prepositional errors, starting with ‘good in something’. Use “good in” mainly to describe someone’s performance within a broader field or a specific context, such ...

If you ask those who have never committed any preposition-related error to cast the first stone, even the hand of the most experienced English teacher will begin to ...