Timeline for A question about how native speakers learn prepositions
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| Dec 29, 2016 at 20:26 | history | edited | Nathan Tuggy | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 13, 2015 at 15:11 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackEnglishLL/status/609739910715715584 | ||
| Jun 13, 2015 at 15:01 | answer | added | Ben Kovitz | timeline score: 10 | |
| Jun 13, 2015 at 11:29 | history | edited | Ben Kovitz |
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| Jun 12, 2015 at 11:39 | answer | added | rogermue | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jun 12, 2015 at 8:32 | answer | added | oerkelens | timeline score: 11 | |
| Jun 12, 2015 at 8:25 | comment | added | user6951 | We native speakers often cannot know the meaning of individual sentences. This is why we very often ask a learner to provide more context. As for prepositions, teachers can only present example uses, many example uses. But getting a firm grasp on the many uses and distinctions in meaning comes only by exposure to the language in natural contexts. It can take years. But the more you listen and read, the more you'll learn. (That is also how natives learn more advanced uses.) I'm learning Italian and prepositions are a pain in the arse. | |
| S Jun 12, 2015 at 8:14 | history | edited | JMB | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| S Jun 12, 2015 at 8:14 | history | suggested | laureapresa | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 12, 2015 at 8:05 | comment | added | laureapresa | Many of my American friends in a public US high school had never taken grammar classes so nobody ever told them what a preposition even was. So I am not sure that (many) English-speaking students have properly learned this. | |
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| Jun 12, 2015 at 7:55 | comment | added | Maulik V | There's no way you can guess it perfectly. For that, you need to be a born native! And, the question you just put here has been my question since years... and yeah, not just for the prepositions, even for pronunciations of various words. They pronounce correctly though they read it for the very first time, I struggle even if I've read it before! +1 and starred! :) | |
| Jun 12, 2015 at 7:48 | history | asked | user48070 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |