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0 I'd go for C. 02br
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00For E You'd probably need to say ..."friend is in Shaghai on a visit" 0-

0 Hi you all! 02br
00I would also choose C, because I use ON with VISIT. However, FOR A VISIT didn't sound wrong to me either and I looked it up in the Websters. There was a sentence: "The neighbors dropped in for a short visit." 02br
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00My question to all native speakers is: Do you say FOR A VISIT? Would you use B in the example above? 0-

0 The preposition "for" has several meanings. In this case it means "the purpose" - so he came with the purpose of paying us a visit. 0-

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00I agree that the answer must be C. 02br
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00But at the first look I felt as if not E but D had been also a possible answer. 02br
00My thought was illustrated by the followings. 02br
00 [1] (01b00o02b00) He is here on a visit from Shanghai. 02br
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0 The answer "C" is the only feasible one to use from the answer choices but I, from my experiences, would like to stress that no native speaker would construct the sentence this way. They would normally write:- "An old friend of mine from Shanghai is here on a visit." 0-

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0 Hi, Abbie. 02br
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00"In this case it means "the purpose" - so he came with the purpose of paying us a visit. " 02br
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00Then if the friend has come to pay us a visit, we could use B? An old friedn of mine is here for a visit? 02br
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00As for "from", I think we all agree that it should be "from", not "to". 0-

0An old friend of mine is here ___________a visit _________Shanghai. 02br
00A. for; to B. for; from C. on; from D. on; to E. on; in 02br
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00Which is right? I think "C" is the correct answer. What about "E"? 02br
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00Hi Miche, 02br
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00Sometimes exercises can be very complicated, because they give no context, and

0 Thanks, Abbie. It makes sense to me and probably explains why I intuitively preferred "on a visit". 0-