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Sunsail Posted 17 years ago
Grammar

Registered to

Hello,

which one is correct?

I registered it to database
I registered it on database.

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I guess it depends what you actually did. " Usually, to register something is to cause some authority to make an official entry somewhere and give you some document as proof of registration. If you want something to be entered into some official database, you may or may not have the means to do that yourself.

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  • I guess it depends what you actually did.
  • " Usually, to register something is to cause some authority to make an official entry somewhere and give you some document as proof of registration.
  • If you want something to be entered into some official database, you may or may not have the means to do that yourself.
  • "
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I guess it depends what you actually did. If it's my database, I'd say, "I entered it in the database."

Usually, to register something is to cause some authority to make an official entry somewhere and give you some document as proof of registration.

If you want something to be entered into some official database, you may or may not have the means to do tha
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Hello,

why are these not correct?

"I entered it to the database."
"I registered it to the database

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There's no accounting for prepositions. They're strictly a matter of tradition.

"In" is a very popular preposition with computers.

I installed a new hard drive in my computer.

Don't blame me! That's just the way it is in the program!

There's a glitch in my software.

She just entered
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Hello

There's no accounting for prepositions. They're strictly a matter of tradition.

can you explain this ? I always hesitate about using prepositions.

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There are very few reliable rules which you can count on to get you through a preposition problem. But you would surely have a hard time expressing your ideas without them!

It's almost necessary to memorize examples of correct usage. I'd suggest collecting short but complete simple sentences in which the most common prepositions are used with the most common verbs. Perhaps you could r
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Hello
do your words include native speaker ?

"It won't be easy, and there will seem to be no end to it. But everyone has the same problem"
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sunsailHello
do your words include native speaker ? << "It won't be easy, and there will seem to be no end to it. But everyone has the same problem" >>
Well, not exactly. As babies and children, we learn complete phrases by memory - by sound. It's a while before we discover that these phrases are made up of words, let al
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