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1.I often serf the Internet. 2. I often surf Internet. 3. I often browse (the) Internet. 2&3 are correct except you need to add "the" before Internet. Surf or browse are both acceptable verbs to use, afterall the software on your machine used to access the internet is called "browser software". D.
Member Emeritus. New York City. English - US. Oct 31, 2015. #2. They're both quite possible; it depends what you're doing. "I'm browsing the internet": I'm looking around on the internet, going from one site to another. "I'm browsing a website": I'm looking around on a website, going from one page to another.
English - US. Jan 19, 2013. #7. They say that "surf the Internet" means "to go purposely from site to site or to browse" while "surf on the Internet" means "to browse or move from site to site randomly". At least for American usage (I can't speak for British), "they" are wrong. We say "surf the internet" (we no longer capitalize "internet") in ...
Have been unsure today whether I should say "browsing a book" when referring to books I leaf through in the library. I wanted to say "browsing through a book" but I kept thinking of "browsing a book online." So is it that for the online behavior "browse" is mostly -- if not exclusively -- used...
English. Sep 11, 2008. #1. It is grammatically correct to start a sentence with 'Along with'? In addition, students who spend more time watching television, playing videogames rather than doing their Math homework usually rush and make silly mistakes. While poor listening skills in class often bring down a student’s mark if they do not follow ...
Nov 30, 2013. #2. I think that "by" sounds the most unlikely of the four. Both "via" and "through" can carry the sense of ' by means of' and would work in some contexts (for example, I do my shopping ___ the internet) as an alternative to "on". The other one "over" is used in the context of communication by radio, so "I chat to all my friends ...
May 23, 2012. #2. You can: browse on the internet. browse in a library. You can browse (around) just about anywhere where you are just looking, not searching intensively, at clothes, at information, at books or whatever, where you might find something you want, and then again, might not. C.
Member. Chinese - China. Aug 19, 2015. #7. cyberpedant said: In the US, alcohol is served in a "bar," along with other things. A "cafe" is usually alcohol-free. thanks now I know the difference between two.
Banned. Tamil. Sep 25, 2017. #2. "Browsing" implies that you don't have anything specific in mind but are just looking around casually, and that you may not necessarily buy anything. From your context, it sounds as if you definitely want to buy something but you need to look at various choices before you decide which one suits you.
In American English, "copy me on [something]" is common vernacular in all areas of society. One can certainly say: "Please make sure I receive copies of all emails relating to ....", but that is a very formal structure, such as would be used in a business letter. In ordinary communications, people in the US use the much simpler "please copy me ...