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Anonymous Posted 7 years ago
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Commentate over /on?
Is this correct?1 ) Foreign commentators commentate on a basketball game over/on the local broadcast.
A Spanish channel is broadcasting an American channel’s broadcast and commentating over it.
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That's not really wrong, but the repetition is unnatural English. We try to avoid saying eg commentators commentate eg broadcasting . .
- That's not really wrong, but the repetition is unnatural English.
- We try to avoid saying eg commentators commentate eg broadcasting .
- .
- a broadcast We'd often find some other way to say it.
- eg The original English commentary on the American game is replaced by one in Spanish.
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That's not really wrong, but the repetition is unnatural English. We try to avoid saying
eg commentators commentate
eg broadcasting . . . a broadcast
We'd often find some other way to say it.
eg The original English commentary on the American game is replaced by one in Spanish.
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