Pain in the English
Pain in the English

Unpacking English, Bit by Bit

A community for questioning, nitpicking, and debating the quirks and rules of the English language.

Pain in the English
Pain in the English

Unpacking English, Bit by Bit

A community for questioning, nitpicking, and debating the quirks and rules of the English language.

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Payton

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“study of” vs. “study on”

  • November 28, 2012, 5:14am

similarly- I am reviewing an article and they way it is written seems awkward to me (but I am an engineer). any suggestions?
a better way to write this sentence... perhaps a different preposition?

This paper studies the effect of slope on fire spread, BY a series of experiments
performed on a fuel bed with slopes from zero to 32°.