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Johnson13 Posted 13 years ago
Grammar
At the subject
The preposition before THE SUBJECT should be ON:
eg The company's silence on the subject has been taken as an admission of guilt.
eg He's completely inflexible on the subject.
eg Women were less equivocal than men on the subject of fidelity in marriage.
Why does the writer of the following use AT instead of ON?:
-I don't know how far it would be possible for you to do much good at the subject, but I'm fairy certain that the amount of economics that you would have to read, would not be more than you could easily do.
eg The company's silence on the subject has been taken as an admission of guilt.
eg He's completely inflexible on the subject.
eg Women were less equivocal than men on the subject of fidelity in marriage.
Why does the writer of the following use AT instead of ON?:
-I don't know how far it would be possible for you to do much good at the subject, but I'm fairy certain that the amount of economics that you would have to read, would not be more than you could easily do.
Top answer
To be good at something means that you have the talent for it.
- To be good at something means that you have the talent for it.
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To be good at something means that you have the talent for it.
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Johnson13But isn't it a noun in the sentence?Subject is a noun.
The sentence is not very natural English. It is very difficult to understand what the writer is trying to say.
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Thank you, Alphe.
By NOUN I refer to GOOD. Your example is BE GOOD AT, GOOD being an adjective, but my sentece has GOOD as a noun.
Nowadays do native speakers seldom use DO MUCH GOOD AT?
By NOUN I refer to GOOD. Your example is BE GOOD AT, GOOD being an adjective, but my sentece has GOOD as a noun.
Nowadays do native speakers seldom use DO MUCH GOOD AT?
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