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Timeline for Prepositions usage

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Jul 7, 2021 at 16:10 answer added David Siegel timeline score: 0
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Jul 7, 2021 at 15:37 comment added Maciej Wakowski Yes, I did exactly that. Then I found this book, and the author claims that statement "you need to memorize it is a myth. That every preposition has his own logic and logic always apply. Yet, no matter how I try, I cannot apply logic here.
Jul 7, 2021 at 15:31 comment added Lambie To be bad for someone; to be detrimental to someone: you just have to memorize it. To be bad TO someone is to mistreat them.
Jul 7, 2021 at 15:25 comment added Maciej Wakowski Thank you for correcting me. I'm wondering about the underlying logic after reading: "The Logic of English Prepositions: Intuitively Understand and Feel English like a Native Speaker" yet I still don't know how to apply it here.
Jul 7, 2021 at 15:15 history edited Maciej Wakowski CC BY-SA 4.0
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