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Sun 94 Posted 16 years ago
Grammar
On or about
On also has the same meaning as ' about', but I am not sure when we can use ' on' instead of ' about'. For example, in the following sentnece, which one is better and why?
Let' have time to share your ideas on( or about?) the follwoing topics with your classmates.
Let' have time to share your ideas on( or about?) the follwoing topics with your classmates.
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I guess we are dealing with propositions where we could find the intricacy , in this case we're forced to use " about " , it's apparently that we are talking about topics so we must share ( about ) not " on " it's uncommon to use it ... as we all know that share must be followed by " in / of " when it used as noon ... but in this case we using it as a verb ...
- I guess we are dealing with propositions where we could find the intricacy , in this case we're forced to use " about " , it's apparently that we are talking about topics so we must share ( about ) not " on " it's uncommon to use it ...
- as we all know that share must be followed by " in / of " when it used as noon ...
- but in this case we using it as a verb ...
- that's why ...
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I guess we are dealing with propositions where we could find the intricacy , in this case we're forced to use " about " , it's apparently that we are talking about topics so we must share ( about ) not " on" it's uncommon to use it ... as
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