Why is it so hard to explain prepositions in the English Language? My poor Turkish students (who have never heard of such a strange phenomena) really struggled...
"I have confidence about his ability?"
(No, that would be ...in his ability.)
"It wasn't an accident. He did it for purpose?"
(No, unfortunately ...on purpose.)
"Bill's absolutely terrified from spiders?"
(No, he's terrified of them).
etc etc
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As one pedant to another, let me note the following:
- phenomenon (singular)
- phenomena (plural)
I believe that Turkish uses grammatical case suffixes and postpositions, which may help (at least in part) to explain part of the problem with using prepositions in English.
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