Anonymous Posted 16 years ago
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She can swim across the pool on one single breath.
May the preposition-on is used here, what relation does it play to connect the 2 nouns between it?
May you share your insight?
May the preposition-on is used here, what relation does it play to connect the 2 nouns between it?
May you share your insight?
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Hi, She can swim across the pool on one single breath. May the preposition-on is used here, what relation does it play to connect the 2 nouns between it? May you share your insight?
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Hi,
She can swim across the pool on one single breath.
May the preposition-on is used here, what relation does it play to connect the 2 nouns between it?
May you share your insight?
'On' sounds rather unnatural. The most common prepostion here is 'in'. ie in the duration of.
Another possibility is 'with', ie
She can swim across the pool on one single breath.
May the preposition-on is used here, what relation does it play to connect the 2 nouns between it?
May you share your insight?
'On' sounds rather unnatural. The most common prepostion here is 'in'. ie in the duration of.
Another possibility is 'with', ie
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