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Problems and Common MistakesOn Prepositions of Place At, In, and on | ||
| journal of the college of basic education | ||
| Article 1, Volume 15, Issue 64, 2010, Pages 87-104 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Zubaida T. Najim; Fatima Zbar Inezan | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Imagine someone saying to you “I am going on a long trip.” Do you feel, with a kind of jolt, that the preposition “on” is out of place, and that it would be better and more idiomatic English to say “in long trip” (or “on long trip”) instead? Do you sometimes wonder which preposition to use—should it be “centered around” or “centered on”? Do we “protest about or (against) an injustice, or omit the preposition altogether? Where variants exist, are they equally acceptable, or are some preferable to others, some to be avoided?These are the kind of questions raised in this paper (Problems and Common mistakes on Prepositions of place At, In, and On). It highlights the growing awareness that, to quote one authority, there is “an epidemic of prepositional anarchy around.” The two main causes of this widespread epidemic are uncertainty about standard usage and, less forgivably, indifference to its dictates. | ||
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