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Anonymous Posted 16 years ago
Grammar

Differences between (of, to, on, in)?

Can somebody explain the differences between of, to, on and in. I always get into situations where i use one of these four preposition to join other nouns and verbs which it causes me confusion.

IBM conducted a survey in comparing worldwide consulting firms
IBM conducted a survey on comparing worldwide consulting firms
IBM conducted a survey of comparing worldwide consulting firms
IBM conducted a survey to compare worldwide consulting firms
  

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All these words have masses of different uses, and this is far too big a question to answer here in any generality. As far as your example sentence is concerned, only the last version (with "to") is possible.

— Mr Wordy

  • All these words have masses of different uses, and this is far too big a question to answer here in any generality.
  • As far as your example sentence is concerned, only the last version (with "to") is possible.
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All these words have masses of different uses, and this is far too big a question to answer here in any generality.

As far as your example sentence is concerned, only the last version (with "to") is possible.
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