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Sinai_beach Posted 16 years ago
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Which preposition is correct?
... difficulties in reading and writing in children with a mild intellectual disability.
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... difficulties in reading and writing by children with a mild intellectual disability.
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... difficulties in reading and writing by children with a mild intellectual disability.
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sinai_beach ... or... difficulties in reading and writing by children with a mild intellectual disability.
- sinai_beach ...
- or...
- difficulties in reading and writing by children with a mild intellectual disability.
- in children Otherwise it might sound as if there were "difficulties by children", which makes no sense.
- CJ
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sinai_beach... difficulties in reading and writing in children with a mild intellectual disability.or... difficulties in reading and writing by children with a mild intellectual disability.in children
Otherwise it might sound as if there were "difficulties by children", which makes no sense.
CJ
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The aim of undertaken research was to determin the level of reading and writing difficulties by subjects.
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The aim of undertaken research was to determin the level of difficulties in reading and writing by subjects.
Which one make sense?
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The aim of undertaken research was to determin the level of difficulties in reading and writing by subjects.
Which one make sense?
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sinai_beachWhich one makes sense?The second one makes more sense to me, but I would rephrase it a little.
The aim of the research (undertaken) was to determine the level of difficulty experienced by subjects in reading and writing tasks.
I don't think you really need und
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