All of our limited edition prints are based on the worlds favourite novels, stories and plays, creating a book on one page. Open your book to page five and look on the page at the middle of the page you will see blah, blah, blah. Using your current word count and the appropriate formula below, calculate the number of pages you can expect in your finished book. Something on a page or something in a page by page, i mean a web page, not a physical book page. Hopefully there are a lot of page 25s to go around or nobody will open their books. A correspondent writes to ask if he can say both open your book on. I was clutching my book so enthusiastically, i answered, on page 5 of. Because when you use the word on in this instance you are trying for a physical reference to the page. In this video i am showing how to give instructions to primary school children in an effective way. But, what you are actually saying is open your books upon page 25. In this context, open is an action verb the class is opening their books and requries the preposition to. As we have said, open your books on page x is not natural english.
Open book to, at, on english language learners stack exchange. Statement 2 in page 172 or statement 2 on page 172. In brief, it may make sense to think of the choice of preposition as both based in dialect and based on semantic requirements. I write a mathematical book and need to refer to certain page of another mathematical book. Open your book on page 5 on is the correct preposition.
In be, we would definately say open your books at page 10. Open book internet used in the phrase my life is an open book, in the 1990s i saw it online many times in personal profiles when a person was saying they are a student occupation. I think normally youd say open your books at page x, thats what i always hear from my teacher. Match the following instructions with their opposites. The only way to have the word on follow open is to put it in a separate clause, such as open your books. As barb wrote, you can say look on page 4 but open your books to american or to or at british page 4.