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If someone said “You should talk about global warming in your lecture”, should you say “I am going to talk PRECISELY about that” or “I am going to talk about PRECISELY that” ? Doesn’t either work? Are both odd?
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I think I'm going to talk precisely about that is right.
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Hi Jordana! The first on - "I am going to talk about precisely that" - is the correct grammatical order because "precisely" modifies "that" (which is standing in place of "global warming"). If you said "I am going to talk precisely about that," then "precisely" modifies "talk" and you are saying that you are going to talk about global warming in a precise manner (that you are going to be very precise in the way you discuss the topic).
Both may be true, but it looks to me like you mean to say that you are definitely going to discuss global warming, rather than that you are going to be precise in your discussion. Does that make sense?
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