Timeline for "State all the languages you can speak __", the suitable preposition
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| Apr 10, 2019 at 4:49 | vote | accept | Learning Equals Success | ||
| Apr 8, 2019 at 21:21 | comment | added | Learning Equals Success | Your explanation and effort are already appreciated, but I would have been satisfied more with a detailed answer that addresses all the issues in my question. | |
| Apr 8, 2019 at 20:00 | answer | added | SamBC | timeline score: 3 | |
| Apr 8, 2019 at 17:21 | comment | added | Colin Fine | Actually, @Tasneem ZH, you are right: neither in is needed. "State all the languages you can speak" is perfectly normal. The usual phrase in English is to "speak a language": "speak in a language" is acceptable, but less common. The explanation in my comment wasn't wrong, but it was incomplete. | |
| Apr 8, 2019 at 9:29 | comment | added | Learning Equals Success | Thanks. So does that mean that "State all the languages you can speak" has to have a preposition? Or is it about the sentence structure as if it needed a one or not, and that "speak in" isn't considered a phrasal verb? Also, is ending the sentence with "speak" all of sudden is natural and smooth? (I don't think so) | |
| Apr 7, 2019 at 23:21 | comment | added | Colin Fine | "in all the languages you can speak" is fine. You already have the preposition at the start of the phrase. | |
| Apr 7, 2019 at 21:50 | history | asked | Learning Equals Success | CC BY-SA 4.0 |