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Anonymous Posted 17 years ago
Grammar

Correct me

Can anyone suggest me which is correct?

1. Please Keep us informed on their return.

2. Keep us informed about their return.

Regards,

Simran
  

Top answer

"about their return" is preferable.

  • "about their return" is preferable.
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9 Answers
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"about their return" is preferable.
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"Keep us informed on" would work for a return which is already in progress.
"Keep us informed regarding" would work when the return might be questionable.

I think "about" is somewhere in between.

"On their return" may also mean "at the time of their return."
"They plan to apply for citizenship on their return."
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Avangi"Keep us informed on" would work for a return which is already in progress.

By analogy with "Keep us informed on progress" (for example), I guess that ought to be so, but because "on their/my/your/etc. return" is such a common idiom, I'd generally take "Keep us informed on their return" to mean "Keep us informed (about some unspecified topic)
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Hi teachers,

With ithe prepositions go with inform, I'm not if it'd be correct to think of "on" as a specific topic, and "of" as more formal use.

Would the following sound natural and grammatically correct, regarding inform?

1. Please keep the president informed of/on the Iraq war. (a specific issue)

2. Please keep the president informed on th
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I don't see much difference in specificity between "on" and "of". On the basis of a few random examples that come to mind, my preference amongst "on", "of" and "about" seems to depend in a fairly complicated way on the surrounding words. I suppose "about" is the safest general-purpose choice. I wouldn't say that "of" is more formal exactly, but "on" does sometimes (but not always) feel to me like
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Hi Mr. Wordy,

Thank you for correcting my questions and giving me the right choices. I notice in #3,

"The Office Manager needs to know when the furniture will arrive. So please keep him informed about this." -- I don't much like "on" here. Othes may differ.

I have heard it said, "please keep me updated on this"; "I need a quotation on this"; "We
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tinanam0102Would you kindly help me with "...on this" and "...in this"? Before that I thought "on this" was like a common usage?
"on this" is in common usage in all the examples you give (except that I'm not familiar with the expression "get a rush on this"). I'm not suggesting that "Please keep me informed on this" is wrong, or is not used by native
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Hi Mr. Wordy,

Thank you for your help.

Regards,

Tinanam
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