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Lcchang Posted 18 years ago
Grammar
Multiple Choice I
There are many advantages ____ being able to speak English as a second language.
A) in
B) of
Please advise.
LCChang
A) in
B) of
Please advise.
LCChang
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Bad luck. In is the expected choice. Of is not a native choice. To is probably the most common in this situation. There are advantages and disadvantages to every decision.
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Mister MicawberBad luck. In is the expected choice. Of is not a native choice. To is probably the most common in this situation. There are advantages and disadvantages to every decision.You are right. The anser key is "in". However, I checked the dictionary but did not find such usage. Could you explain a
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The dictionaries (especially bilingual ones) simply cannot list all the uses of some of the function words like prepositions. There are just too many collocations in the language. Here, the commoner collocations are, as I said, advantage to/in + noun. I don't think there is any further explanation to be offered.
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Strange!!!!!!!
Just a few minutes ago, I was searching for some setences of both usages ( adavatage +in/to+noun) by using google web seach when,oddly enough, only few sentences were there to analyze, however, when i tried google's imagesearch, all kinds of sentences that I was looking poured in from all sides.
Just a few minutes ago, I was searching for some setences of both usages ( adavatage +in/to+noun) by using google web seach when,oddly enough, only few sentences were there to analyze, however, when i tried google's imagesearch, all kinds of sentences that I was looking poured in from all sides.
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