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Liton Das Posted 7 years ago
Grammar

On over upon

The driver lost his control "on/over/upon" the brake.


Here over seems right but I have no idea grammatically how does it work.


Please give me a short explanation of the usages of these three prepositions it's very confusing.

  

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Liton Das The driver lost his control "on/over/upon" of the brake. As shown. 'lost control of' is the correct phrasing.

  • Liton Das The driver lost his control "on/over/upon" of the brake.
  • As shown.
  • 'lost control of' is the correct phrasing.
  • The following link shows you more than a thousand examples of this phrase.
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Liton DasThe driver lost his control "on/over/upon" of the brake.

As shown. 'lost control of' is the correct phrasing. The following link shows you more than a thousand examples of this phrase.

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