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Kooyeen Posted 19 years ago
Grammar

Preposition - In/on the graph

Hi,
would you say:

Look at the red line in/on the graph.
It is showed by the red bar in/on the bar graph.
The values are represented by those blue dots in/on the chart.

I would say "in". I'd see the difference between "in" and "on" the same way as the difference between "in a letter" and "on a letter".

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On , both at the BBC and the New York Times.

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  • On , both at the BBC and the New York Times.
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On, both at the BBC and the New York Times.
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Hi Marius,

Could you explain clearly on when is the appropriate time to use 'on' and 'in'?

Thanks so much. Emotion: smile
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in: when you want to show that the line/bar is part of the (internal) structure of the graph

on: when you want to say that the line/bar it's on its surface

But I'd say on.
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I understand. Thanks Marius! Emotion: wink
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KooyeenHi,
would you say:

Look at the red line in/on the graph.
It is showed shown by the red bar in/on the bar graph.
The values are represented by those blue dots in/on the chart.

I would say "in". I'd see the difference between "in" and "on" the same way as the diff
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Thank you very much.

Gosh, that was a mistake, it should have been "shown", I wasn't paying much attention to what I was writing!
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Well, you know the verb 'show' does have two accepted past participle forms: showed and shown.

Though I think I usually use the irregular form myself, I'm still scratching my head about why your sentence bothered me so much more than the other example I gave...
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