I heard this yesterday in a conference call.<\/p>\n
Problem:<\/strong> Explanation:<\/strong> One of the definitions of the preposition “on” is in the direction of<\/em>, as in “to travel on a northerly course”.<\/p>\n This definition also is the primary definition of the preposition “to”.<\/p>\n Therefore, the preposition “on” did not belong in the conference-call attendee’s sentence.<\/p>\n For fun, I searched Google for each of the following (with the quotation marks) and got about the indicated numbers of matches:<\/p>\n This tells me that Web authors have written the expression correctly<\/em> vs. incorrectly<\/em> by a ratio of 2.74-to-1, which is dreadful.<\/p>\n Solution:<\/strong> I heard this yesterday in a conference call. Problem: The word “on” does not belong in the sentence. Explanation: Someone was asking the conference-call facilitator to forward an email message to someone who was not attending the call. He said, “Please forward that on to him.” One of the definitions of the preposition “on” is…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prepositions","category-redundancies"],"yoast_head":"\n
\nThe word “on” does not belong in the sentence.<\/p>\n
\nSomeone was asking the conference-call facilitator to forward an email message to someone who was not attending the call. He said, “Please forward that on to him.”<\/p>\n\n
\n“Please forward that to him.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"