Preposition: on a day

[Vitalik]

Business Idiom in English, Intermediate level

ESL/EFL Test #136 "How to make exclamations", question 1

What a wonderful day to see the mountains .........!

(a) off
(b) by
(c) on
(d) in

Business Idiom in English, Intermediate level

ESL/EFL Test #136 "How to make exclamations", answer 1

What a wonderful day to see the mountains on!

Correct answer: (c) on

Your answer was: incorrect
What a wonderful day to see the mountains by!
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see the mountains on?

Vitalik

[Alan]

Hi,

We use the preposition on here because it refers to wonderful day - You can see the mountains on a wonderful day.

alan
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[RoZ]

I disagree. One should not end a sentence with a preposition. A preposition always needs an object. In a case like this, the object would be "which" and the phrase would be "on which". One should place the prepositional phrase next to word it modifies. In this example, "What a wonderful day on which to see the mountains."

This seems a bit formal for an exclamation. It is acceptable in an exclamatory sentence to omit the preposition. The sentence would be "What a wonderful day to see the mountains!"

[Yankee]

Here is an explanation I found for question 10 in this test:
http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/193400.html
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