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Anonymous Posted 12 years ago
Grammar
Do you specialise in or at?
The norm is to write that a company specialises in a specific area business.
What if the sentence reads specialises in helping people to grow their businesses?
Should the sentence read specialises in helping or specialises at helping?
Does it matter?
What if the sentence reads specialises in helping people to grow their businesses?
Should the sentence read specialises in helping or specialises at helping?
Does it matter?
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Anonymous Does it matter? Probably not very much, but 'specialise in' is still the normal collocation.
- Anonymous Does it matter?
- Probably not very much, but 'specialise in' is still the normal collocation.
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AnonymousDoes it matter?Probably not very much, but 'specialise in' is still the normal collocation.
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Thanks for the help.
We settled on saying 'in' when it refers to a topic and 'at' when referring to the act of doing.
So you specialise in cookery but specialise at cooking carrots.
We settled on saying 'in' when it refers to a topic and 'at' when referring to the act of doing.
So you specialise in cookery but specialise at cooking carrots.
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AnonymousWe settled on saying 'in' when it refers to a topic and 'at' when referring to the act of doing.I don't see that as realistic, but simply an attempt at a prescription. 'At' still sounds wrong in your sentence.
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