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Anonymous Posted 14 years ago
Grammar

"Here on a website"

"Here on this website, I study English with many great people." I still think that 'Here' means 'on this website', but I am confused that none agrees with me. So I would like to hear from more teachers. Do you think that 'Here on this website' is not a good expression and my opinion is wrong? Thank you for helping me as usual.
  

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Here on this website, I study English with many great people. " here" is a redundant adverb in this sentence. " I would not put it in the sentence; it is not necessary.

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  • Here on this website, I study English with many great people.
  • " here" is a redundant adverb in this sentence.
  • " I would not put it in the sentence; it is not necessary.
  • This is also used in certain dialects, but it is considered substandard English: On this here website, I study English with many great people.
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Here on this website, I study English with many great people. "here" is a redundant adverb in this sentence. Here just emphasizes the adverb phrase "on this website." I would not put it in the sentence; it is not necessary.

This is also used in certain dialects, but it is considered substandard English:
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Thank you, so you do not say 'Here' means 'on this website' or either of them is just unnecessary? Thank you.
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AnonymousI still think that 'Here' means 'on this website', but I am confused that none agrees with me.
Strange that no one agrees. They are the same. The phrase 'on this website' elaborates the meaning of 'here', which is not precise enough to stand on its own in that sentence. You can leave out 'here', but you can't leave out 'on this website', or we'd ha
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Context is important.
If you delete "here", you still have to have an antecedent for "this" so people know what website you are talking about. eg


I visit EnglishForward.com every day.

On this (referring back to the website mentioned in the previous sentence) website, I study English with many great people.

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I go to EnglishForward.com e
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