Prepositions that 'advantage' takes.

[hhtt21]

I would like to ask about the prepositions that advantage take. Would you please explain what they are? I know one phrase "advantage over". But what about "advantage against" and "advantage versus" or "advantage on"

1) Cars had an advantage over horses.
2) Cars had an advantage on horse.
3) Cars had an advantage against horse.
4) Cars had an advantage versus horse.

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[Tdol]

Re: Prepositions that advange takes.

I would only use the first.

 

[Rover_KE]

Note that I have improved your thread title.

 

[teechar]

I would like to ask about the prepositions that advantage takes.

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[hhtt21]

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Thanks for the correction but what do other natives think about?

 

[emsr2d2]

I would only use the first as well. Additionally, even if the preposition were correct in the other three, the final word is wrong in each one, even though you wrote it correctly in the first.

 

[hhtt21]

Note that I have improved your thread title.

But is it an improvement/development or rather an actual correction? I think you corrected it, so/hence isn't it a correction rather an improvement?

 

[hhtt21]

Any correction must be an improvement.

Would you please explain your use of "must" above? Does must imply that you have a, big or slight, hesitation about its being an improvement?

 

[emsr2d2]

It implies no hesitation at all.

 

[hhtt21]

Any correction must be an improvement.

It implies no hesitation at all.

What is the difference between these?

1) "Any correction must be an improvement."
2) "Any correction is an improvement."

It makes me think that 2 has a more sure expression whether or not any correction is an improvement? Would you please explain?

 

[hhtt21]

Any correction is necessarily an improvement.

Would you please explain this: Any correction has to be an improvement?

 

[emsr2d2]

If something is corrected, the result will, by definition, be an improvement on the original.

 

[GoesStation]

It's certainly an improvement.

 

[hhtt21]

We have now gone through:

But this is about rules. It's not allowed to open a new thread for such cases.

 

[emsr2d2]

Definitely don't open a new thread! We've covered everything we're going to. Don't get so tied up in whether someone has "corrected" or just "improved" one of your posts. Whichever one it is, it'll be better than whatever you wrote originally.