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Would you please look the word ‘‘progress’’ up? You will see the usage of ‘‘progress’’ as a noun with many following phrases :‘‘progress towards’’ ,‘‘progress on’’ ,‘‘progress of’’.
There are also many contexts for each example. But I don’t understand very clearly their meanings apart from each other.
Please explain it for me
Many thanks.
Hi Duc,
‘Progress towards’ suggests you are going towards some kind of betterment or towards some kind of development as in: Although the government promised they would reform the tax system, they don’t seemed to have made much progress towards it.
‘Progress on’ is often a report on how things are developing in a particular scheme or project as in: Let me tell you what’s happening with the new education project and I am pleased to show you the report outlining the considerable progress made on it.
‘Progress of’ relates to the development particularly belonging to something or someone as in: The progress of Harry (Harry’s progress) through his school career has been hampered by his frequent absences caused by poor health,
Alan
I find the usage of ‘‘progress towards’’ is a little like that of ‘‘progress on’’. Is this true that in a some context these 2 phrases are interchangeable ?
Hi,
I think ‘progress towards’ indicates that you are getting there and is therefore more postive. ‘Progress on’ is more factual and as I said often is linked with words like ‘report’ ‘update’ .
Alan