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"..........down 1,445 on the previous year." Why is it ""....on the previous year." but not ""....from the previous year."
When making comparisons between two years, in BrE, it is idiomatic to say either … on the previous year or … from the previous year. Both are fully understood. Of course it does depend on the exact ...
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"He fell off the horse" OR "He fell from the horse"?
Both prepositions are fine - they mean the same, and there's no significant AmE / BrE usage split. But there is a tale to be told using NGrams...
Note that I increased occurrence counts for fell off/...
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Is "it" grammatically incorrect in "The chair was too small for him to sit on it"?
It does seem at first glance that the question rotates around resumptive pronouns, but there is a grammatical distinction that we have to take note of before pounding the gavel.
The version without ...
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Is "it" grammatically incorrect in "The chair was too small for him to sit on it"?
There's nothing syntactically wrong with repeating the subject (optionally, using a pronoun), but in OP's specific example doing so would be stylistically poor. But consider...
1: The chair was too ...
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