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MUSCOVITE Posted 14 years ago
Grammar

what preposition is expected after 'quota'?

Hi,

(1) What is your daily quota for the number of incoming email requests?
(2) What is your daily quota of the number of incoming email requests?
(3) What is your daily quota on the number of incoming email requests?

Whether these sample sentences are meaningful enough or not, which of the three prepositions can be used in this context?
Thank you!

mus-te
  

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Nice try, Musco, but you can't separate meaning and usage. Your sentence seems to use "quota" wrong, so the preposition does not matter. Let me change it a bit: What is your daily quota for the number of rhinoplasties performed?

— Enoon

  • Nice try, Musco, but you can't separate meaning and usage.
  • Your sentence seems to use "quota" wrong, so the preposition does not matter.
  • Let me change it a bit: What is your daily quota for the number of rhinoplasties performed?
  • )
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Nice try, Musco, but you can't separate meaning and usage. Your sentence seems to use "quota" wrong, so the preposition does not matter. Let me change it a bit:

What is your daily quota for the number of rhinoplasties performed? (I like to use words that the spellchecker doesn't know just to show it who's boss.)
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"For" is most natural in those sentences - unlike enoon, I think it makes sense to use "quota" in this IT context - but you could also say
MUSCOVITE(2) What is your daily quota of the number of incoming email requests?
and still be understood.
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enoonfor the number of rhinoplasties performed?
Thanks enoon!
Thanks Fosse8!

I am glad I have no idea what those "rhinoplasties" may look like. Something between a rhinoceros and a quack plastic surgeon? :-)
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