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Mikael Posted 17 years ago
Grammar

Charmet AT


"Lady Helena soon joined her husband on deck, quite charmed at the prospect of such exciting sport"


I'm not able to uderstand why the use of the preposition AT in that sentence.
Why not ABOUT or another preposition?
  

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Hi, "Lady Helena soon joined her husband on deck, quite charmed at the prospect of such exciting sport" I'm not able to uderstand why the use of the preposition AT in that sentence. Why not ABOUT or another preposition? Preposition use is often very idiomatic, and thus hard to learn as well as hard to teach.

— Clive

  • Hi, "Lady Helena soon joined her husband on deck, quite charmed at the prospect of such exciting sport" I'm not able to uderstand why the use of the preposition AT in that sentence.
  • Why not ABOUT or another preposition?
  • Preposition use is often very idiomatic, and thus hard to learn as well as hard to teach.
  • If I were you, I'd just remember that 'charmed at' is very commonly said.
  • Other possibilities incude 'by' and 'with'.
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Hi,

"Lady Helena soon joined her husband on deck, quite charmed at the prospect of such exciting sport"

I'm not able to uderstand why the use of the preposition AT in that sentence.

Why not ABOUT or another preposition? Preposition use is often very idiomatic, and thus hard to learn as well as hard to teach. If I were you, I'd just remember t
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CliveHi,

"Lady Helena soon joined her husband on deck, quite charmed at the prospect of such exciting sport"

I'm not able to uderstand why the use of the preposition AT in that sentence.

Why not ABOUT or another preposi
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