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I have improved something or I have improved on something?
For example,
I have improved my English skills.
I have improved on my English skills.
Which is correct?
And is it correct say that my English skills have improved?
I just feel weird because skills don’t improved by themselves but be someone or something like practicing.
Thank you!
Jan 20, 2019 3:46 PM
Answers · 1
Sorry. All good.
.
I have improved my English skills.
I have improved on my English skills, of last year.
....my English skills have improved. - ok, good
to improve on something, is generally to better it, as in better than it, replace it with a better one. (Not make something better than it was before)
So, not so obvioius to use on something that you actually evolve, in situ, as in alter the existing one.
.
This is last year's design. Today we show a design that improves on that design.
This is last year's design. We have improved it.
I have improved on the methods I used.
My English skilld are improved.
My English skills are much improved.
>>I just feel weird because skills don’t improved by themselves but be someone or something like practicing.
I have no sense of this aspect being involved. :)
January 20, 2019
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