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Everlastinghope Posted 16 years ago
Grammar

Grammar

Is it correct to say" on the end"?.I heard about " at the end and in the end".I looked up in Macmillan Dictionary about the word news,and there I saw an example " on the end of the word news there's s".
  

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I looked up in Macmillan Dictionary about the word news,and there I saw an example " on the end of the word news there's s". Sometimes choosing the correct 'spatial' preposition is a difficult one because the individual functions seem to overlap at times. Certainly 'on' and 'at' both sound idiomatic, but strictly speaking 'at' is correct.

— BillJ

  • I looked up in Macmillan Dictionary about the word news,and there I saw an example " on the end of the word news there's s".
  • Sometimes choosing the correct 'spatial' preposition is a difficult one because the individual functions seem to overlap at times.
  • Certainly 'on' and 'at' both sound idiomatic, but strictly speaking 'at' is correct.
  • ' At ', (as a spatial) is used to refer to a point , and this is what your sentence is doing.
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everlastinghopeIs it correct to say" on the end"?.I heard about " at the end and in the end".I looked up in Macmillan Dictionary about the word news,and there I saw an example " on the end of the word news there's s".


Sometimes choosing the correct 'spatial' preposition is a difficult one because the individual functions seem to overlap
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