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From: Bob Cunningham <exw6sxq@earthlink.net>
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Subject: Re: involvment in or involment at?
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Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 05:32:29 GMT
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On Sun, 17 Jul 2005 19:07:21 GMT, "Giuseppe"
<cames@hotmail.it> said:
> On a website about south pole exploration I found the
> following bit:
> "The history of our involvement at the South Pole dates
> back to the early years of the 20th century."
> (http://205.174.118.254/nspt/explore/hstory01.htm)
> What is the right way to say : involvment in or involment
> at?
Depends. You can correctly speak of involvement at a place
or involvement in an activity.
Think of "The history of our involvement in climate studies
at the South Pole dates back to the early years of the 20th
century."
Or "The history of our involvement at the South Pole in
climate studies dates back to the early years of the 20th
century."
> The history is very interesting to me, so do you think
> that the text is written in a correct english and can I
> relay on it to improve my english?
I've now read the entire article at the URL you've given.
The English all the way through is excellent. You can
confidently use it as a model to follow.
However, please remember that "English" is almost always
capitalized. The only case I can think of where it's not
capitalized is in the name of a newsgroup.
("alt.usage.english", "alt.english.usage",
"alt.languages.english".)
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