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MyShirley Posted 20 years ago
Grammar

Live or living

Are you living on campus?

Is this sentence correct?
  

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Yes, that's correct. " is also correct.

  • Yes, that's correct.
  • " is also correct.
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Yes, that's correct.

"Do you live on campus?" is also correct.
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May the preposition be "at" or "in" there?
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RuslanaMay the preposition be "at" or "in" there?

on/off campus is a fixed expression.

I am living on campus. This sentence implies that I am staying on campus on a temporary basis. It is not my home.
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What do you mean by living on campus?

The campus means, for the best of my knowledge, a university or such a higher education institute and its surrounding area.

You can live on the money you received from ......

You can live on just eating only cassava.

You can live in a certain area.

I live in this area of the town; this the northern part o
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Hello Rotter

"On campus" is a fixed expression, as Pinenut says. There are other similar expressions, e.g. "on site".

1. I have a room on campus.

— in British English, this means "I have a room in one of the university buildings". (You would usually take such a room for a year.)

2. Do you live on campus?

— this means "do you have a room in one of the un
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Mr. Pedantic

I haven't heard this fixed expression before.

I know the word campus very well.
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Hello Rotter

You would be most likely to hear "on campus" if you were in fact "on campus" at least some of the time (i.e. a student); it's much less common in the outside world.

It clocks up an astonishing 345 million googles. (I suppose students spend a lot of time online.)

MrP
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Pinenuton/off campus is a fixed expression.
Thanks, Pinenut.
MrPedantic(I suppose students spend a lot of time online.)
For sure.

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