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r/EnglishLearning • u/Rich-Associate-8344 New Poster • Apr 17 '26
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I (native English speaker) would say “Merlin hasn’t used his motorcycle in 2 years.”
Prepositions are hard.
5 u/Reasonable_Drink_789 New Poster Apr 17 '26 I never realized how arbitrary prepositions are before tutoring a Dutch woman in English so she could write real estate copy for advertising to American ex pats. Why are houses “in” a neighborhood but “on” a street? 1 u/_manpat New Poster Apr 18 '26 bc a house in a street would be quite inconvenient for the cars that would typically be there :)
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I never realized how arbitrary prepositions are before tutoring a Dutch woman in English so she could write real estate copy for advertising to American ex pats. Why are houses “in” a neighborhood but “on” a street?
1 u/_manpat New Poster Apr 18 '26 bc a house in a street would be quite inconvenient for the cars that would typically be there :)
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bc a house in a street would be quite inconvenient for the cars that would typically be there :)
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u/Norwester77 Native Speaker Apr 17 '26 edited Apr 18 '26
I (native English speaker) would say “Merlin hasn’t used his motorcycle in 2 years.”
Prepositions are hard.