I recently saw this in an email message.<\/p>\n
Problem:<\/strong> Explanation:<\/strong> Therefore, “discuss about” literally can mean to talk about about<\/em>.<\/p>\n Following the verb “discuss” with the preposition “about” seems to be a fairly common English blunder, given that a search of Google for “discuss about” (with the quotation marks) returned approximately 1,340,000 matches.<\/p>\n I believe that this blunder represents a belief by some people that the verbs “discuss” and “talk” are equivalent, given that “Let’s talk about it.” is<\/em> grammatically correct and given that a search of Google for “talk about” (with the quotation marks) returned approximately 120,000,000 matches.<\/p>\n Solution:<\/strong> I recently saw this in an email message. Problem: The preposition “about” should never follow the verb “discuss”. Explanation: The definition of the verb “discuss” is to consider by argument or comment; to write or talk about. Therefore, “discuss about” literally can mean to talk about about. Following the verb “discuss” with the preposition “about”…<\/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":[3,5,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-common-english-blunders","category-prepositions","category-verbs"],"yoast_head":"\n
\nThe preposition “about” should never follow the verb “discuss”.<\/p>\n
\nThe definition of the verb “discuss” is to consider by argument or comment; to write or talk about<\/em>.<\/p>\n
\n“Let’s discuss it.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"