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Yangsiyu007 Posted 15 years ago
Grammar
In/on the evening
I encountered a SAT practice question (identifying sentence error):
The radio station received the most number of calls from listeners on the evening it aired a discussion of the musics of Aretha Franklin.
The solution is that 'the most number' is unidiomatic; it should be 'the largest number'. This I understand, but I don't why 'on the evening' is as it is and not 'in the evening'?
Thanks!
The radio station received the most number of calls from listeners on the evening it aired a discussion of the musics of Aretha Franklin.
The solution is that 'the most number' is unidiomatic; it should be 'the largest number'. This I understand, but I don't why 'on the evening' is as it is and not 'in the evening'?
Thanks!
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Hi, I encountered a SAT practice question (identifying sentence error): The radio station received the most number of calls from listeners on the evening it aired a discussion of the musics of Aretha Franklin. The solution is that 'the most number' is unidiomatic; I wouldn't say that it's unidiomatic. I'd say it is incorrect grammar.
- Hi, I encountered a SAT practice question (identifying sentence error): The radio station received the most number of calls from listeners on the evening it aired a discussion of the musics of Aretha Franklin.
- The solution is that 'the most number' is unidiomatic; I wouldn't say that it's unidiomatic.
- I'd say it is incorrect grammar.
- it should be 'the largest number'.
- This I understand, but I don't why 'on the evening' is as it is and not 'in the evening'?
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Hi,
I encountered a SAT practice question (identifying sentence error):
The radio station received the most number of calls from listeners on the evening it aired a discussion of the musics of Aretha Franklin.
The solution is that 'the most number' is unidiomatic; I wouldn't say that
I encountered a SAT practice question (identifying sentence error):
The radio station received the most number of calls from listeners on the evening it aired a discussion of the musics of Aretha Franklin.
The solution is that 'the most number' is unidiomatic; I wouldn't say that
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"In the evening" denotes every evening whereas "on the evening" refers to that particular evening, for example you might say on Sunday evening.
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Thanks! My grandfather just looked up a grammar book and it's just as you've said : )
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yangsiyu007My grandfather just looked it up in a grammar book, and it's just as you've said.Maybe he uses the same grammar book that we do.
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