Timeline for Preposition to use in "There are lots of managers ..... my company."
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| Dec 14, 2016 at 12:42 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackEnglishLL/status/809015799662936064 | ||
| Dec 12, 2016 at 23:33 | history | edited | J.R.♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
moved the ngram remark up from a comment by the OP
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| Dec 12, 2016 at 22:59 | comment | added | J.R.♦ | When I try something rather generic, like this, my findings mirror yours. (One can easily draw erroneous conclusions about prepositions when the wording is overly specific and the sample size too small.) I don't think this is a very good test question. | |
| Dec 12, 2016 at 22:50 | answer | added | TimR | timeline score: 2 | |
| Dec 12, 2016 at 20:48 | comment | added | Colin Fine | On GloWbE (the international corpus of web-based English), "Manager in/at * company" (where the * means any one word) has only 75 hits, 46 of them with "at" and 29 with "in". In the NOW corpus (News on the Web), there are 212, of which 149 are with "at", and 63 with "in". So it would appear that (at least on the web) "at * company" is rather more common than "in * company". | |
| Dec 12, 2016 at 20:44 | answer | added | MMacD | timeline score: 3 | |
| Dec 12, 2016 at 20:35 | comment | added | AlexD | @AbsoluteBeginner, I see that it doesn't have any hits for 'managers at my company' but I still see a lot of generic Google results for this phrase (56K vs 188K results for 'managers in my company). I understand that I can't relay just on Google results but that is why I'm asking here for more authoritative answer. | |
| Dec 12, 2016 at 20:25 | comment | added | AlexD | @Mick I checked Google ngram and can see rising usage of 'at my company' (but 'in my company' is still more common). | |
| Dec 12, 2016 at 20:13 | comment | added | Mick | "at the place where I work", perhaps, but "in my company" is probably what is expected. | |
| Dec 12, 2016 at 20:09 | history | asked | AlexD | CC BY-SA 3.0 |