Thursday, 13 March 2014

Grammar 1 - "According to"

According to

  1. û According to my opinion, we should go swimming.
ü In my opinion, we should go swimming.
According to’ is used with another person or source of information and is not used with ‘opinion’, eg.
ü According to Mary, the beach is closed.
ü According to the timetable, there is a bus at 10 a.m.
  1. û According to all these reasons, she decided to change jobs.
ü For all these reasons, she decided to change jobs.
‘According to’ is not used with ‘reason’.

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