"Open your book on/at page xx"
Magdalena
I'd choose "Open your books on page xx", but I'd like to know whether the
second version is correct or not. Which sounds more natural to native speakers?
Thank you kindly,
Magdalena
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Mark Wallace
> Hi,
>
> I'd choose "Open your books on page xx", but I'd like to know
> whether the second version is correct or not. Which sounds more
> natural to native speakers?
"Open your books to page xx".
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> Hi,
>
> I'd choose "Open your books on page xx", but I'd like to know
> whether the second version is correct or not. Which sounds more
> natural to native speakers?
I'd say "Open your books *at* page xx", but I might equally say "Open
your books and turn to page xx". "Open your books *on* page xx" would
be less likely than either.
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> Hi,
>
> I'd choose "Open your books on page xx", but I'd like to know whether
the
> second version is correct or not. Which sounds more natural to native
speakers?
>
If a book should flop open by itself, I would say "It opens to..." or
"It opens at...(the same place every time)."
Roberta Davies
>
> Hi,
>
> I'd choose "Open your books on page xx", but I'd like to know whether the
> second version is correct or not. Which sounds more natural to native speakers?
Open your book to page xx.
The picture is on page xx.
The new chapter begins on page xx. It starts at page xx and goes to
page yy. It finishes on page yy.
The book fell open at page xx.
Hope this helps.
Robbie
David Buttery
> "Open your books to page xx".
IS that an Americanism? It sounds *very* strange to me (in the UK).
EmersonDameron
Or "Turn in your books to page xx." All the other ones sound awkward to
American me.
~ED
B Campbell
Magdalena wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'd choose "Open your books on page xx", but I'd like to know whether the
> second version is correct or not. Which sounds more natural to native speakers?
>
> Thank you kindly,
> Magdalena
>
>
I would prefer 'Open your books to page xx'.
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meirman
emerson...@aol.com (EmersonDameron) posted:
That assumes the books are already open! It works fine then, but you
need to speak very carefully to students. If you don't include
"open", they'll try to get to page xx and just flip their books over
in the process. :)
Open your books at page xx. makes sense too, but these same students,
if they open the book at page 59, may not know what to do next. "To"
implies direction and motion and may give them the idea that they
should turn pages if they don't hit the specified page exactly when
they first open the book.
It is interesting that most responders showed no interest in "at".
It's certainly good English even in the US.
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Mark Wallace
> "Mark Wallace" <mwallace...@dse.nl> wrote on 31 Aug 2002:
>
>> "Open your books to page xx".
>
> IS that an Americanism? It sounds *very* strange to me (in the
> UK).
Yes, I'm afraid I'm terribly American in my ways and preferences.
I think the British, Canadians, Australians, and all the other
native speakers are plain stupid for using all those 'u's, and for
using 's' where 'z' obviously goes. I would never vote for anyone
who doesn't say 'Our Great Country' at least 39 times in each
campaign speech. I spend my time wishing that all those foreigners
in their silly little countries would finally realise how superior
to them even the most lowly American is. I think that 'comedy'
means 'social comment', and that 'TV comedy' means "do the same as
everyone else has already done, and don't do or say anything funny
unless it makes you look good". I know for a fact that 'democracy'
means 'the right to make money for myself at any human cost'. I
cannot name more than five capital cities of other countries, and
don't understand why there are so many religions around the world,
when everyone knows that theAmerican God is the only one. And I
never need to set foot outside the States, because I'm perfectly
capable of putting the world to rights from my TV-watching chair.
You Britishers will be all right, though, so long as you always do
what we betters tell you.
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> You Britishers will be all right, though, so long as you always do
> what we betters tell you.
So Mr Blair keeps telling us... ;-)
Mark Wallace
> "Mark Wallace" <mwallace...@dse.nl> wrote on 01 Sep 2002:
>
> <snip>
>> You Britishers will be all right, though, so long as you always
>> do what we betters tell you.
>
> So Mr Blair keeps telling us... ;-)
Blair?
Who's that?
Is he the Governor of one of the states?
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David Buttery
> Blair?
> Who's that?
> Is he the Governor of one of the states?
Given your sig, I'm assuming that's a humorous remark, but you never
know, so... Tony Blair, Prime Minister of the UK.
Mark Wallace
> "Mark Wallace" <mwallace...@dse.nl> wrote on 02 Sep 2002:
>
>> Blair?
>> Who's that?
>> Is he the Governor of one of the states?
>
> Given your sig, I'm assuming that's a humorous remark, but you
> never know, so... Tony Blair, Prime Minister of the UK.
UK?
What's that, then?
Do you mean Arkansas?
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> UK?
> What's that, then?
> Do you mean Arkansas?
I don't think I can go any further with this without coming over all
political - which I'm happy to do, but not in this NG.
Mark Wallace
> "Mark Wallace" <mwallace...@dse.nl> wrote on 02 Sep 2002:
>
>> UK?
>> What's that, then?
>> Do you mean Arkansas?
>
> I don't think I can go any further with this without coming over
> all political - which I'm happy to do, but not in this NG.
I'm just wondering how badly you're going to explode, when you
realise that I'm as true-blue British as they come.
Dr Robin Bignall
wrote:
>David Buttery wrote:
>> "Mark Wallace" <mwallace...@dse.nl> wrote on 02 Sep 2002:
>>
>>> UK?
>>> What's that, then?
>>> Do you mean Arkansas?
>>
>> I don't think I can go any further with this without coming over
>> all political - which I'm happy to do, but not in this NG.
>
>I'm just wondering how badly you're going to explode, when you
>realise that I'm as true-blue British as they come.
I thought that we'd stopped wearing woad, except on formal occasions.
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Mark Wallace
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You speak for yourself, Doc!
Bloody Rome-collaborators!
David Buttery
> I thought that we'd stopped wearing woad, except on formal
> occasions.
Yeah, now we have the Woman woad... (sorry).
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