teaching verbs with/though songs

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ademoglu

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Hi.

''I have a teacher who teaches some verbs with/though/via songs.''

This is my sentence and I have really confused. I've checked on the net and seen the preposition 'with' but still I want to know if I can use the others. If yes, is there any difference in meaning?

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Are all of them correct?
They're all grammatically possible. Via would be very weird. You could say with songs or through song. Note that the latter is a singular, non-count noun, indicating that we're thinking of the idea of "song" (or "singing") rather than a collection of individual songs.
 

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''I have a teacher who teaches some verbs with/though/via songs.''

. . . I've checked on the net and seen the preposition 'with' but still I want to know if I can use the others.

If you are willing to go without a preposition, you might find it useful to use the verb use.

I have a teacher who uses song(s) to teach some verbs.
I have a teacher who teaches some verbs using song(s).

 

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I think "through" is used to mean that songs are introduced as a teaching tool for language teaching (of verbs).
"With" implies "something which "goes alongside".
We use via for talking about places.e.g. we go from A to C via B.
 

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I wouldn't be surprised to see "He teaches English via the medium of song".
 
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