O, Prepasitions!

English as a Second Language English Vocabulary, Grammar and Idioms
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Hi Everyone!

Hope to get help from somebody. I’d like to figure out what prepostions I can use with the word “limit”

I looked up in the dictionary and found several prepositions for “limit”

Originally I wanted to figure out which preposition to use in the phrase: Limit the list with the certain numbers of cities. I’m not sure wheter we need use “with” here, probably “to” is better. Can you tell me which one to choose?

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In this kind of situation the preposition should be “to”, but “… to the certain numbers of cities” is not quite right.

You can say “limit the list to a certain number of cities” (number of cities is the important thing) or “limit the list to certain cities” (identity of cities is the important thing).

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Wow, that is very interesting. never knew that. thanks, Dozy!