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Anonymous Posted 15 years ago
Grammar

Around or on

Would you use around or on in this sentence and why?

The other observation I had centered around the kids congregating in a circle, whereby one student would dance in the middle.

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The sentence is a bit hard to interpret anyway, as it seems to go around a direct approach: My other observation focused on the kids congregating in a circle while one danced in the middle.

— Mister Micawber

  • The sentence is a bit hard to interpret anyway, as it seems to go around a direct approach: My other observation focused on the kids congregating in a circle while one danced in the middle.
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The sentence is a bit hard to interpret anyway, as it seems to go around a direct approach:

My other observation focused on the kids congregating in a circle while one danced in the middle.
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The way the sentence was written was an observation from a video clip. The instructor took off points fro using around instead of using on in the sentence and I was not told why this was an error. I could not figure it out myself.
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Well, then I presume it's just an error in transcription, since you were supposed to record what was on the video clip, right?
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