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Teo Posted 18 years ago
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___ the afternoon of Easter

01. __ the afternoon of Easter02br
002. __ the afternoon of July 4th02br
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00Which preposition should I use to fill in the above blanks, in or on?0-
  

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01cite10Teo12cite12br
101. __ the afternoon of Easter12br
102. __ the afternoon of July 4th12br
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10Which preposition should I use to fill in the above blanks, in or on?10Definitely, "on."12br
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10For number one, we'd be more inclined to say, " . . . on Easter afternoon."12
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0Hi,02br
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00A small extra comment.02br
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00'Easter' is commonly used to refer to the whole Easter weekend, so I'd typically say 02br
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01b00On the afternoon of Easter Sunday02b00 (or of Easter Monday)02br
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01b00On Easter Sunday, in the afternoo
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0Hi Clive,02br
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00Could you kindly explain the difference / the reason for using “01b00In02b00 the afternoon” vs. “01b00On02b00 the afternoon of Easter Sunday” ? It seems to me that we switch from 01b00In02b00 to 01b00On02b00 to match the usage of 01b00“On Sunday.”02
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0Hi,02br
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00I'll try, although prepositions are tricky to nail down. I just wrote the earlier post using prepositions instinctively.02br
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01font00Could you kindly explain the difference / the reason for using “01b00In02b00 the afternoon” vs. “01b00On02b00 the afternoon of Easte
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0Hi Clive,02br
00Thank you for the answer.01blockquote
01cite10Clive12cite11font10There is some role reversal at play that I cannot figure out. 12font10What do you mean?12br
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11font00Without your explanation, I imagined02font
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01cite10Hoa Thai12cite10As you said, "prepositions are tricky to nail down," my confusion goes on! 15112blockquote
10Hi Hoa Thai02br
00I hope you'll find 05000 helpful.02br
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0 Hi Cool Breeze,02br
00Thank you!02br
01u00"Whenever you add 01font00a modifier02font00 to express time, use 01b00on02b02u00." I agree with that; and to comply with the rule, I've used 01b00on 02b00too. Adhering to the rule is not the issue, yet when I tried to match
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0Hi all,02br
00In hoping to lighten up our day a bit, I would like to borrow some words from ‘Crazy English” by Richard Lederer to share with you. Some of these words were posted in the past but I could no longer find the related thread.02br
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01i00“In the crazy English language, the blackbird hen is brown, blackboards can be blue or green …To add to
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01cite10Hoa Thai12cite10So where's the logic? The usage of prepositions must be memorized. My search for some commonality of course failed as I over-simplified the issue! 15012br
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10You didn't read my post carefully enough, HT. It deals with expressions of 01b00time02
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0Hi Hoa Thai,02br
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00Are there no oddities in your native language? Do foreigners finds it easy to learn?02br
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00That would surprise me.05002br
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00Best wishes, Clive010id15
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