Whenever I check copies of my undergraduate Engineering students I get confused at their rampant and unsparing use of prepositions in sentences. They are not to blame for using wrong or confusing ...
AN English teacher in Iran, Farhad H., recently sent me e-mail asking this very interesting question about preposition usage: “I often have difficulty when it comes to the difference between the ...
Connect to or connect with? On television or in television? Admit someone to hospital or in hospital? What is the difference between ‘old for his years’ and ‘old in years’? Which is correct: try ...