Timeline for What preposition should be used with "strong"?
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| Apr 10, 2017 at 2:43 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackEnglishLL/status/851264451638513664 | ||
| Apr 7, 2017 at 19:10 | answer | added | LawrenceC | timeline score: 1 | |
| Apr 7, 2017 at 15:58 | comment | added | stangdon | I agree with @SteveES - I think when we're talking about skills or knowledge, it's "strong in", but when talking about personal characteristics, it's "strong of". | |
| Apr 7, 2017 at 15:27 | comment | added | SteveES | @jumpjet67 Confusingly, you can use of with strong, it's just that you wouldn't with mathematical skills. E.g. "He was strong of mind", meaning "he was strong-minded". I don't know what the Rules are (if there are any) though. | |
| Apr 7, 2017 at 14:46 | comment | added | aryndin | @stangdon thx! Is there anymore prepositions that are used with strong? And also as an offtopic - is this really confusing so much when someone says something without undefinite article (Engineer must be smart)? | |
| Apr 7, 2017 at 14:36 | history | edited | aryndin | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 7, 2017 at 14:35 | comment | added | stangdon | strong in is much more idiomatic than strong of. (By the way, it's mathematical.) | |
| Apr 7, 2017 at 14:33 | comment | added | WRX | I am not a grammar guru, so further explanations must come from one of them -- there are quite a few here. I am finding that the English-learners often have a better grasp of grammar than I do. | |
| Apr 7, 2017 at 14:30 | comment | added | aryndin | @Willow, of course! This is the main problem for english learners, whose native language doesn't suppose (undefinite) arcticles at all :-)) | |
| Apr 7, 2017 at 14:27 | history | edited | aryndin | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 7, 2017 at 14:25 | comment | added | WRX | I think this is a sentence fragment. I'd say: An engineer must have strong mathematical skills. (No capitals are necessary, imo.) | |
| Apr 7, 2017 at 14:20 | history | asked | aryndin | CC BY-SA 3.0 |