English: February 2007 Archives

Prepositions

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    Sometimes I don't know which preposition is right.
    I was writing a comment to a certain film, and I wanted to write my feeling sympathy.
    I realized I didn't know which preposition was suited to that situation.
    I wrote I felt sympathy for him, but one second later, I thought it might be right to write "to" instead of "for", and then, I'm completely confused it would be better to use "with".
    I should ask someone whom speak English as their mother tongue.

Lieutenant?

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    American ranks of police officers are different from British ones.
    Detective Chief Inspector is Japanese "Keibu", I think, but I heard the word "Lieutenant" on an American police drama which is called Columbo.
    I checked it on the web dictionary (http://www.reference.com/) and it says "Lieutenant is a military, naval, paramilitary, fire service or police officer rank."
    I haven't heard the word before in British police drama as far as I know, so it might be specialized for American police force.

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