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to rave reviews. The company had just released its Windows XP operating system to rave reviews.
What does "to rave reviews" mean?
- 13-Nov-2011, 06:13 #2
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Re: to rave reviews. "Rave reviews" means the reviews were overwhelmingly positive.
- 13-Nov-2011, 08:42 #3
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Threadstarter / Original PosterTeacher Re: to rave reviews. Why use the preposition to?
- 13-Nov-2011, 10:36 #4
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Teacher Re: to rave reviews. It's a conventional usage, referring to the way something was received: It opened to rave reviews/He was elected to universal acclaim [=he was elected and everyone agreed it was a good thing]
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