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yolprica
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on or at?
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What would you say, open your books on or at page 40?
Thanks in advance
Yolanda |
2 Sep 2009
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As far as I know,we use "on".
:))
Good night everybody |
2 Sep 2009
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Kate (kkcat)
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on is ok...another way is �turn to page... � good night :)
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2 Sep 2009
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yolprica
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An American language assistant told me that I shouldn �t use "on". Do Americans use "at"? |
2 Sep 2009
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ranclaude
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Hi Yolprica,
we would say:
Open your books "to" page 40
or
You will find this "on" page 40
or
You will find this "at" page 40 (although, semantically this is slightly awkward)
we would not say open your books on page 40.
Hope this helps,
cheers,
ranclaude
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2 Sep 2009
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yolprica
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Thank you very much, your explanation is very clear.
Hugs from Spain
Yolanda |
2 Sep 2009
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Samantha.esl
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Oh! I really thought It was correct to say "on" page 49!
Prepositions are such a hard thing to learn for non-native speakers of english.
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2 Sep 2009
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Zora
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@Ohlala_esl
You can say:
"On page 11, do exercise 2."
BUT
You can �t say:
Open your books on page 11... it has to be: "Open your books TO page 11".
AND you could say.
"AT the end of page 11 is exercise 2."
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2 Sep 2009
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Tere-arg
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As far as I know:
Open your books to page 40. (American English)
Open your books at page 40. (British English)
Go/Turn to page 40.
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2 Sep 2009
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ranclaude
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Really, where you place the "at" and "on" depends on the context of the sentence. Yolprica asked "What would you say, open your books on or at page 40?"
As mentioned earlier, we (in Australia) would say:
Open your books "to" page 40
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You will find this "on" page 40
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You will find this "at" page 40 (although, semantically this is slightly awkward)
we would not say open your books "on" page 40.
Even though Australian English is similar to British English, we don �t say You will find this "at" page 40 unless "at" is used in a different context. Semantially it is awkward, but still used.
Cheers from Australia, one fine spring day!
ranclaude |
2 Sep 2009
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Kate (kkcat)
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wow, thank you for raising this topic, from today on, I will use the preposition �to � in �open your books to page... �. thank you! hugs.
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2 Sep 2009
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