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Musicgold Posted 14 years ago
Grammar
Omission of prepositions
Hi,
The following text is from a native speaker, except the crosses and the underline. I feel that the person should have inserted ‘on’ at the places of X. I am trying to understand why they avoided those prepositions. Note however that they have used the underlined preposition. Any explanation would be appreciated.
Operations department will be shutdown (X) the week of December 26-30. The department will resume (X) the evening of January 3, 2012 for deliveries on Tuesday January 3.
Thanks.
The following text is from a native speaker, except the crosses and the underline. I feel that the person should have inserted ‘on’ at the places of X. I am trying to understand why they avoided those prepositions. Note however that they have used the underlined preposition. Any explanation would be appreciated.
Operations department will be shutdown (X) the week of December 26-30. The department will resume (X) the evening of January 3, 2012 for deliveries on Tuesday January 3.
Thanks.
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The quoted text is okay. In fact, if you put an "on" where there is an X, that would not be right for this passage. Native speakers know this is okay by instinct - while it bewilders non-native speakers.
- The quoted text is okay.
- In fact, if you put an "on" where there is an X, that would not be right for this passage.
- Native speakers know this is okay by instinct - while it bewilders non-native speakers.
- However, to explain the reason for this is difficult for a native speaker, because he knows it by instinct only, and furthermore there are no real grammatical rules for the innumerable situations like this in English - that's just the way the language works, and a non-native speaker has to learn it all by experience, a very difficult task.
- If I were to try to explain it "grammatically," it might go something like this (you see from this the difficulty in explaining situations like this).
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The quoted text is okay. In fact, if you put an "on" where there is an X, that would not be right for this passage. Native speakers know this is okay by instinct - while it bewilders non-native speakers. However, to explain the reason for this is difficult for a native speaker, because he knows it by instinct only, and furthermore there are no real grammatical rules for the innumerable situation
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Operations department will be shutdown (X) the week of December 26-30. The department will resume (X) the evening of January 3, 2012 for deliveries on Tuesday January 3.
It should be "The operations department will be shut down { } the week of December 26-30. The department will resume [ ] the evening of January 3, 2012 for deliver
It should be "The operations department will be shut down { } the week of December 26-30. The department will resume [ ] the evening of January 3, 2012 for deliver
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