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What's the difference in usage between "to" and "unto" in 17th century English?
I am writing a script in which all the characters speak early Modern English. I have learned a bit about Old English, but I am not an expert so I am also consulting multiple artificial intelligences, ...
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Relative Clause and Prepositions
First of all, I tried to find an answer to my question under similar topics but couldn't find. If there's a question topic that's identical or similar to this one please put a link and I'll delete ...
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Is it "come to" vs "come down" to a place?
When asking if they visit the city I live in, What should I say?
Do you come down to xyz often?
or
Do you come to xyz often?
Assume xyz is a name of a city.
When instructing someone to come to a ...
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"Lecture notes in" or "Lecture notes on"
I have seen both options used interchangeably, is there a reason why?
Example with on: https://www.springer.com/series/15362
Lecture Notes on Data Engineering and Communications Technologies
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"close resemblance in/on ..." OR "closely resembling ..." [closed]
I have two quite similar fracture populations and I try to emphasize this in the following sentence. But which of the prepositions/solutions is correct in British English?
The baseline ...
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Preposition needed: did not survive a certain timepoint [closed]
I have a sentence as follows. This should say that the patients who died during the observation period were excluded from analyses. Should I use a preposition after "survive"? I did a ...
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Preposition "to" use necessary: The aims of the study were: (1) to evaluate, (2) to present [closed]
I am writing study aims. Are the "to"-s necessary or redundant in the following sentence?
Article "to" use necessary: The aims of the study were: (1) to evaluate, (2) to present .....
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Paste data in/to/into the Excel-based calculator
I am writing an instruction for an Excel-based calculator. Which preposition should I use?
Paste data in/to/into the calculator
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Guidance in/on research and life
Should I use "guidance on" or "guidance in" in the following sentence? Google search showed that "on" is more often used.
Thank you for the guidance not only on research ...
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Correct preposition use: regional comparisons in/of health care utilisation
Which would be correct preposition use:
regional comparisons in health care utilisation
regional comparisons of health care utilisation
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Choosing prepositions for writing between and within region disparities
We are working on an methodology, allowing to detect disparities between the regions and within/inside the regions. For example:
There is a two-fold difference in salary between region A and B -
this ...
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declared as or declared
The sentence is :-
Supreme Court can declare the parliamentary laws as unconstitutional.
Do we have to use 'as' in the aforementioned sentence. What's the difference if we use it vs when we don't?
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Is using "short of something" to express "missing/lacking something" grammatical?
I have heard two conflicting opinions on the following:
They want to play football but they are short of one man.
The intended meaning was that they were missing one player.
Now, a colleague from ...
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"Class, open your books TO/AT page 13!"—Is it a matter of dialectal difference?
My original notion was,
A) If there's a movement and a destination (as in the case of thumbing a book to reach a certain page), it should be to:
Class, open your books to page 13!
B) If there's ...
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Using "from" instead of "since" when referring to a date
Is it appropriate to use "from" instead of "since" in reference to a specific date? Also, does it matter whether this date is in the past or future when considering the previous question?
For example,...
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