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Up Posted 13 years ago
Grammar

preposition

He worked excellently ......................... Maths, English, Physics, Chemistry

the gap here is ( for / in / on) ?
  

Top answer

If it's a student evaluation by a teacher, say 'in'.

  • If it's a student evaluation by a teacher, say 'in'.
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If it's a student evaluation by a teacher, say 'in'.
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CliveIf it's a student evaluation by a teacher, say 'in'.
If it isn't, what should I say?

Here is the paragraph:

My son is a secondary school (0) student. He goes to school five days a (1) week and studies many subjects at school. Last week I went (2) to an end-of-semester meeting with his form-teacher and sh
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Its answer is on.
I don't find any result "work (well/ excellent/...) in subject" in Google Search.
Actually, I don't know that when a student is evaluated by a teacher, use "in" or something else.
I only know the preposition going with "subject" is "on".

What do you think of this?
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The idiomatic term here is 'in'.
Try googling 'good in math'.

Clive
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You mean "to be good in something"??
I only know the form: ...........to be good at something.
And in Google, there is no "good in math'' (only "good at math", and it is considered to be the right form)
You can check again.
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When you say eg good in math, it sounds a bit like you are thinking of it like a math class. That's why teachers often say it that way.

I checked Google again. Here is the first page of results for "good in math".

About 2,110,000 results(0.22 sec
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I don't know why you can find those titles.
I searched, but there is only bout 526,000,000 results (0.24 seconds)
And no "good in math".
But that's fine, If it isn't wrong. I read the links you posted and there seems to be difference between "good at" and "good in".
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I would say "He is good at math" rather than "good in math" if I were talking about his ability to do arithmetic, although I might say "He is doing good (or "well") in math" if I were talking about his progress in math class this year.
I see the logic of using "on" in the original post context here.
A teacher might well say "He must work on his reading."
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Ok, I thank all of you

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