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Maria D Posted 13 years ago
Vocabulary
for + a weekday
Hello! Could you help me, please, with a preposition.
Which is right:
1) This is your home task for Friday
2) This is your home task on Friday
3) your variant
Thank you!
Which is right:
1) This is your home task for Friday
2) This is your home task on Friday
3) your variant
Thank you!
Top answer
The expression is task for [day] . I think you mean 'homework', not 'home task', but in either case you need 'for'. CJ
- The expression is task for [day] .
- I think you mean 'homework', not 'home task', but in either case you need 'for'.
- CJ
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The expression is task for [day].
I think you mean 'homework', not 'home task', but in either case you need 'for'.
CJ
I think you mean 'homework', not 'home task', but in either case you need 'for'.
CJ
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Oh, thank you very much!
And why not "home task"? I always say to my students "and this is your home task" or "please, write down your home task" Have I been wrong?
And why not "home task"? I always say to my students "and this is your home task" or "please, write down your home task" Have I been wrong?
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Maria Dexplain the difference between "home task" and "howework"?This is the difference.
I have never heard the term "home task". Maybe it is a British expression.
The term "homework" is as common as mud here in the U.S. All teachers and students say "homework" all the time!
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I used to live in Britain, although I am now in Canada.
I've never heard home task. But I have heard home assignment.
Homework is the common term
Clive
I've never heard home task. But I have heard home assignment.
Homework is the common term
Clive
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To add my voice to the other respondents - don't say "home task". Nobody says "home task".
Here is the evidence. I googled "home task" (including the quotation marks) and got 136,000 hits, most of which seemed to be about house maintenance. I googled homework and got 246 million hits. So it seems like the world agrees.
To answer the original question, you want "
Here is the evidence. I googled "home task" (including the quotation marks) and got 136,000 hits, most of which seemed to be about house maintenance. I googled homework and got 246 million hits. So it seems like the world agrees.
To answer the original question, you want "
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This speaker of BrE agrees with everybody else. It's 'homework' for us, too; 'home task' is unnatural.
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Thank you very much, everybody!!! I will try hard now to never say "home task" again! Only "homework" or "home assignment" 
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